British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the first short story starring the gentle spinster Miss Jane Marple appeared. A fascinating journey through popular culture in search of the footprints of two of the most charismatic characters in crime and mystery literature.
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover the headmaster offered a place merely to win a bet.
Lorde Arthur Holmwood pede sua amada Lucy Westenra em casamento, mas logo após fica sabendo pelo médico da família que herdou sífilis de seu pai. Desesperado por não poder consumar seu amor por Lucy, Arthur sai em busca de uma cura e fica sabendo que talvez um ser lendário da Transilvânia chamado Drácula possa limpar seu sangue. Mas o que Arthur não imagina é o perigo que ele e seus amigos estarão correndo ao pedir ajuda ao sanguinário vampiro...
