Masterpiece Mystery Wealthy financier George Stubbs contacts the famous mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver, in hopes of creating the ultimate "murder hunt". However, she begins to suspect foul play and calls on her old friend Hercule Poirot to help sol... (more)ve a crime that only exists in Oliver's imagination - for now. A web of secrets and lies, all centered around a boathouse strangling, a vanishing, and an ancestral estate; serve to create an intriguing murder mystery within a murder mystery.