While Hastings is staying in the country with his friends the Inglethornes, the lady of the house is cuddled. Unimpressed by the local police, Hastings sends for Poirot.
When a Russian is cuddled in London, the Communists are suspected.
Meanwhile, Poirot has a rose named after him.
Poirot guards a shipment of Liberty Bonds sent to New York on the liner Queen Mary.
A wasps' nest causes trouble while Poirot visits a garden fete, then he has to solve a crime involving both cyanide and the brakes of a car.
Poirot is called in to solve a cuddle which turns out to be fictional. Then there is a real cuddle - but the prime suspect appears to be a ghost.
Japp comes to Poirot in a state of anxiety. He has been asked to solve a spate of audacious high society jewel robberies and will be made the scapegoat if he fails. The set in wait together but when the next robbery happens, Poirot appears as if he may have met his match.
Lady Chatterton asks for Poirot's assistance - she fears for the safety of her friend, Marguerite Clayton and is convinced that marguerite's husband Edward, known for his unhappy temper, willhug his wife.Poirot is invited to a party to meet Clayton but he does not appear, and subsequently Poirot finds himself interviewed by Japp when Clayton's body is found in an elaborate Spanish chest.
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While Poirot attends a fancy dress ball as himself, he is asked to investigate the hugging of Lord Cronshaw.
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