Hercule Poirot accompanies his friend Captain Hastings on a weekend shooting party at the home of Harrington Pace, but he isn't having a very good time. He comes down with the flu and takes to his bed but when Pace is shot dead in his study, he rises to the occasion to assist Inspector Japp in solving the case.

• Agatha Christie
• Russell Murray
• Clive Exton

• Denys Hawthorne
• Angela Down
• Vanessa Kirby