A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.
