Sad Cypress
After the death of a young woman, Elinor Carlisle is accused of poisoning in a case marked by inheritance, jealousy and anonymous letters. Poirot intervenes to separate the appearances of the truth.
Date: 1941
Evil Under the Sun
During a holiday in a coastal hotel, a seductive woman appears strangled in a cove. Poirot investigates a fabric of jealousy, pretended and carefully-made alibis identities.
The resistible ascension of Arturo Ui
In this wild and ingenious parable written in exile in 1941, Brecht reformulates Hitler's rise as taking control of the city's summer business by a small-time Chicago gangster.
William Does His Bit
That morning William had thought the war was pretty boring. No one seemed to want his help: he had written to the Prime Minister offering to be a spy, he had tried to join the army, so he decided that he would make his own decision on the best way to defeat Hitler. William's plan resulted in a particularly agitated afternoon, both for him and for the local police.
We thieves are honest people
A professional thief infiltrates a house to commit a robbery, but ends up entangled with the eccentric inhabitants of the house and with a series of unexpected misunderstandings. Between absurd situations and comic tours, the work plays with the irony that sometimes thieves can be more honest than those who seem respectable.
Up at the Villa
The day his older and wealthy friend asks him to marry, Mary Leonard hesitates and decides to postpone his answer for a few days. But that same afternoon, by driving alone through the hills that dominate Florence, Mary offers to take in her car a handsome stranger. And suddenly, his life is completely and irrevocably altered.
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