The morning after his eighty-fifth birthday party held at his Norfolk County mansion with his dysfunctional family of his mother, his surviving children, their spouses, and their children in attendance, successful novelist and publishing house owner Harlan Thrombey, self-made in his wealth, is discovered in his attic study by Fran, one of the housekeepers, him dead with his throat slashed, knife in hand. Arguably the last person to see him alive was his Brazilian nurse, Marta Cabrera, the daughter of an illegal immigrant, something she has told few within this sphere. She went through her evening ritual of playing a game of Go with him and administering his medication at that time. A week later following the funeral, the local police are questioning the family members at the mansion to see what happened that night that could have led to his death, the questioning in their belief that Harlan committed suicide. The interviewees all confirm the time-line of events supporting that suicide belief. One other person at each of the interviews is famed private detective Benoit Blanc, who the family will learn has been retained as a consultant. What he fails to tell them in return is that he was hired anonymously, cash in advance. Blanc is able to bait many of the interviewees into bad mouthing other family members while being reticent to admit something that Blanc already seems to know about them, each of the family members looking out solely for him/herself. The key interview, one that happens unexpectedly, may be with Marta, who Blanc suspects was Harlan’s confidante and who cannot lie in always having the physical reaction of vomiting whenever she does. One person not interviewed in being absent is one of Harlan’s grandchildren, overly privileged Ransom Drysdale, who left the party early after having had a private conversation with his grandfather, he not being interviewed somewhat immaterial as Ransom was known to have not been at the mansion at the time of death. The nature of the investigation changes a week later at the reading of the will, where all will discover but some who were already aware that Harlan had rewritten it the week before his death, the specific changes not known until this day. With all these comings and goings, learning the full truth of what happened with Harlan may come down to discovering the unknown of who hired Blanc and why.
—Huggo
参考翻译：
在诺福克郡豪宅举行的85岁生日派对后的第二天早上，成功的小说家和出版社老板哈兰·特伦贝（Harlan Thrombey）在阁楼书房里被弗兰发现，他是一名管家，喉咙被割伤而死，手里拿着刀。可以说，最后一个看到他活着的人是他的巴西护士玛尔塔·卡布雷拉，她是一名非法移民的女儿，在这个领域她很少告诉别人。她在晚上和他玩围棋，给他服药。葬礼结束一周后，当地警方正在询问豪宅里的家人，看看当晚发生了什么，可能导致哈兰的死亡，他们认为哈兰自杀了。受访者都确认了支持自杀信念的事件的时间线。在每一次采访中，还有一位是著名的私家侦探贝诺伊特·布兰克，家人将了解到他一直被聘为顾问。作为回报，他没有告诉他们，他是以匿名、预付现金的方式受雇的。布兰科能够诱使许多被采访者说其他家庭成员的坏话，同时不承认布兰科似乎已经知道的事情，每个家庭成员都只关心他/她自己。关键的面试可能会出乎意料地发生在玛尔塔身上，布兰克怀疑玛尔塔是哈兰的密友，她不能撒谎，因为无论何时她都会有呕吐的身体反应。哈兰的孙子之一、享有特权的兰森·德赖斯代尔（Ransom Drysdale）在缺席期间没有接受采访，他在与祖父进行私人谈话后提前离开了派对。他没有接受采访有点无关紧要，因为兰森在去世时不在豪宅。一周后，在宣读遗嘱时，调查的性质发生了变化，所有人都会发现，只有一些人知道哈兰在去世前一周已经重写了遗嘱，具体的变化直到今天才知道。随着这些来来往往，了解哈兰所发生的一切的全部真相可能会归结为发现谁雇佣了布兰科以及为什么雇佣布兰科的未知。-雨果
重点词汇释义：
birthday party生日聚会
in attendance到; 出席; 陪同; 陪伴
publishing house出版公司; 出版社
illegal immigrant非法入境者；非法移民
went through审查
family members属；家属
what happened发生什么事了;
