Author Mark Place looks at Agatha Christie's career and Christie's short story 'The Lemesurier Inheritance'. This book also contains an illustrated edition of the short story in which each generation of the Lemesuriers have suffered from the family curse that no first born son will inherit the estate from his father. Mrs Lemesurier comes to Poirot after her first born son suffers a series of ‘accidents’, but she suspects something more than a curse to be the cause…