波洛(大卫·苏切 David Suchet 饰)在拍卖会上看中了一面非常精美的镜子,哪知道这面镜子却被名为杰维斯的艺术品经销商给高价买走了,不仅如此,杰维斯还聘请了波洛到他的府上,去调查他手底下的一名建筑设计师。 杰维斯太太(艾玛·菲尔丁 Emma Fielding 饰)是一个神神叨叨的女人,她坚信丈夫买回家的镜子上禁锢了邪恶的力量,会有人因为这面镜子而丧生。让大家没有想到的是,杰维斯太太的预言很快就得到了应验,当晚,杰维斯先生被人发现死在了书房里,房间里的一切线索都显示杰维斯先生是自杀,但聪敏的波洛很快就从中发现了疑点。
Astronomer Bill Whitley is so preoccupied with the new comet he's discovered that his time at the observatory sometimes comes at the expense of his beautiful wife, Vicky. When the neglected spouse becomes influenced by an eccentric neighbor into believing in the power of astrology, she subscribes to a weekly horoscope from a phony seer, the appropriately named Margaret Sybill. When the beautiful Mrs. Whitley reads that a new dream man will be coming soon into her life, she assumes he's taken the form of Lloyd Hunter, a handsome and dashing foreign correspondent who doubles as the neighborhood air raid warden. A frantic Bill realizes that he's going to have to keep closer track of his earthbound heavenly body if he's going to keep the prediction from becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.