The beautiful Arlena Stewart lay on the ground, her lovely bronzed body facing the beach, but strangely, the sun wasn't shining, and Arlena wasn't sunbathing she was suffocating. Whenever Arlena appeared, the atmosphere around her grew tense and resentful. Every guest at the hotel had a motive to kill her, including her new husband, but Hercule Poirot suspected that what appeared to be a crime of passion actually concealed something far more sinister.