The train hurtled through the night, bearing its wealthy, coddled passengers toward the opulent pleasures of the South of France. But one of them would never again wake to the warm Mediterranean sun...

Behind a carefully wrought framework of suspicion, Hercule Poirot, the zealous little Belgian detective, saw something else: a delicate, murderous web of deceit and greed. And, at its evil center, the legendary, cursed jewel known as the Heart of Fire!