“The second strike of the gong” The owner of the house was found dead in his room. All doors and windows in the room are tightly closed, and a weapon lies next to the body. Suicide? Probably, all household members and government officials would have thought so, but by chance, Hercule Poirot was invited to a dinner party in the house where this misfortune happened. He will have to unravel the mystery of the locked room... “The Gates of Fate” In their old age, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford became the proud owners of an old house in the village. Along with the property, they inherited some trinkets, including a collection of old books. And then one day, while going through them, Tuppence suddenly drew attention to the underlined words in Stevenson’s novel “The Black Arrow”, combining which, one could read the phrase: “Mary Jordan did not die a natural death.”