United States

An invitation to dinner... and a murder, is sent to five world famous detectives by Lionel Twain (Truman Capote), an eccentric millionaire living in an isolated, gloomy estate in northern California. They all come and the fun begins; James Coco, Peter Falk, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers and Maggie Smith sit down to dinner as the sinister Twain reveals that someone in the dining room will be murdered at midnight... and of course, Alec Guinness is the blind butler! The doors are locked. The windows are bolted. The clock strikes twelve, and...