- Fiction, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
Poirot, disillusioned by the "senseless cruel brutality" of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that she kept under a floorboard. When, however, he is asked by the investigating officer to take another look at the case to stop an innocent man going to the gallows, he realises that things may not be as simple as they first appear to be.
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- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Collins, Berkley, ED DU MASQUE
- Editions
- 89
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780060825898
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- Fiction
- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Detective and mystery stories
- English Detective and mystery stories
- Mystery
- Large type books
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Private investigators, fiction
- Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- England, fiction
“HERCULE Poirot came out of the Vielle Grand'mere restaurant into Soho.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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