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The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings...First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the 'suicide' that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoah's tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl.What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!

Poirot Investigates is a classic collection of Agatha Christie’s short stories first published in 1924. It follows the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his companion Arthur Hastings as they solve a series of mysteries. From threatening letters to Egyptian curses to missing wills, Poirot’s little grey cells never falter. While Hastings and the reader are lost in the minutiae of the case, Poirot sees it all—and with impeccable attention to detail, finds the culprit.

Poirot Investigates is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.With ample space almost any practiced writer can pile complication upon complication, just as any man could make a puzzling maze out of a ten-acre field. But to pack mystery, surprise and a solution into three or four thousand words is to achieve a feat. There is no doubt about Miss Christie's success in the eleven tales (why not a round dozen?) published in this volume. All of them have point and ingenuity, and if M. Poirot is infallibly and exasperatingly omniscient, well, that is the function of the detective in fiction.—The Observer

Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge. The American version of this book, published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1925, featured a further three stories. The UK first edition featured an illustration of Poirot on the dust jacket by W. Smithson Broadhead, reprinted from the 21 March 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.Poirot receives a visit from Miss Mary Marvell, the famous American film star on her visit to London. She has received three letters, handed to her by a Chinese man, which warn her to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the "Western Star", to where it came from - the left eye of an idol - before the next full moon. Her husband, Gregory Rolf, who bought it from a Chinese man in San Francisco, gave Mary the jewel three years ago. The pair are going to stay at Yardly Chase, the home of Lord and Lady Yardly when the moon is next full to discuss the making of a film there and Mary is determined to go with her diamond. Both Poirot and Hastings remember society gossip from three years back that linked Rolf and Lady Yardly. The Yardlys also own an identical diamond that came from the right eye of the idol - the Star of the East.After Mary has gone Poirot goes out and Hastings receives a visit from Lady Yardly, who was advised to visit Poirot by her friend Mary Cavendish. Hastings deduces that she too has received warning letters. Her husband plans to sell their jewel as he is in debt. When Poirot learns this he arranges to visit Yardly Chase and is there when the lights go out and Lady Yardly is attacked by a Chinese man and her jewel stolen. The next day, Mary's jewel is stolen from her London hotel. Poirot makes his investigations and returns the Yardly's jewel to them.Poirot tells Hastings that there never were two jewels or any Chinese man - it was all an invention by Rolf. Three years before in the United States he had an affair with Lady Yardly and blackmailed her into giving him the diamond which he then gave to his wife as a wedding present. Lady Yardly's was a paste copy that would have been discovered when her husband sold it. She was starting to fight back against her blackmailer and Rolf arranged the deception against his wife that Lady Yardly copied when Hastings told her of the threats. Poirot's threats manage to persuade Rolf to give the real diamond back and leave the Yardlys in peace.

•‘Will please the large public which relishes stories of crime, but likes its crime served decorously’ NEW YORK TIMES. •This 2020 Spitfire Publishers edition of Agatha Christie’s first collection of Hercule Poirot short stories, includes all 14 stories featured in both the original US and UK editions and the original illustration included to help her readers solve one the cases. Fourteen exciting cases brilliantly solved by the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot – and the inimitable Captain Hastings. Poirot exercises his ‘little grey cells’ on the abduction of the British Prime Minister, a million dollar bond robbery, the disappearance of a banker, a missing will, a ‘suicide’ that was murder and even the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… Includes the following short stories: The Adventure of ‘The Western Star’; The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor; The Adventure of the Cheap Flat; The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge; The Million Dollar Bond Robbery; The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb; The Jewel Robbery at the ‘Grand Metropolitan’; The Kidnapped Prime Minister; The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim; The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman; The Case of the Missing Will; The Chocolate Box; The Veiled Lady; The Lost Mine. ABOUT THE AUTHORAgatha Christie was born in Torquay, England in 1890 and remains the best-selling novelist of all time, with two billion copies sold worldwide. She is the author of 65 detective books and became known as the ‘Queen of Crime’. Christie was married twice and became a Dame of the British Empire in 1971, five years before her death in 1976. Agatha Christie created her much-loved detective, Hercule Poirot, for her first novel, THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES published in 1920. It was well received at the time (‘A most entertaining book’ NEW YORK TIMES; ‘Very well contrived’ THE SUNDAY TIMES; ‘Ingenious’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT) and a total 33 novels and 56 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot were published over the next 55 years, culminating in Hercule Poirot’s last case CURTAIN, published in 1975. PRAISE FOR ‘POIROT INVESTIGATES’ ‘Will please the large public which relishes stories of crime, but likes its crime served decorously’ NEW YORK TIMES; ‘The short story is a sterner test of the “detective” writer than the full-grown novel. With ample space almost any practised writer can pile complication upon complication, just as any man could make a puzzling maze out of a ten-acre field. But to pack mystery, surprise and a solution into three or four thousand words is to achieve a feat. There is no doubt about Miss Christie's success in this volume… With THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES and this volume to her credit Miss Christie must be reckoned in the first rank of the detective story writers.’ THE OBSERVER; ‘Poirot is most things that the conventional sleuth is not’ THE SCOTSMAN; ‘A capital collection… Poirot’s gorgeous self-conceit gives a dash of humour to this capital collection of mystery stories. They are ingeniously constructed, and told with an engaging lightness of style’ LITERARY REVIEW

[Read by David Suchet]The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain HastingsFirst there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond, then came the suicide that was murder, the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat, a suspicious death in a locked gun-room, a million dollar bond robbery, the curse of a pharaohs tomb, a jewel robbery by the sea, the abduction of a Prime Minister, the disappearance of a banker, a phone call from a dying man and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!