4.3
Poirot Investigates
Poirot Investigates is a eleven-story collection written by Agatha Christie. In the short stories, detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries using his typical perspicacity. In The Adventure of the Western Star, a Chinese man warns a famous American film star to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the "Western Star", to the left eye of an idol. In The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor, he investigates a middle-aged man who died just a few weeks after insuring his life. In The Adventure of the Cheap Flat, Poirot avoids a murder. In The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge, Poirot, Hastings, and the Scotland Yard need to find out who murdered Harrington Pace. In The Million Dollar Bond Robbery, Poirot needs to prove the innocence of man in charge of the London and Scottish Bank while a million dollars disappeared. In The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, the widow of a famous archaeologist who died mysteriously looks for Poirot's help. In The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan, the detective aid is useful to locate stolen pearls. In The Kidnapped Prime Minister, a national crisis calls Poirot: The Prime Minister has been kidnapped. In The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim, Poirot bets five pounds he can solve in a week the case of a banker who disappears from his large country house. In The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman, Poirot and Hastings find Count Foscatini dead, his head being crushed during his last dinner. In The Case of the Missing Will, Poirot receives an unusual request from an orphan about her Uncle in Devon, who died a month before leaving a will with a strange clause.
FictionAction & AdventureClassicsMystery & DetectivePolice ProceduralTraditional
RELEASED2021
PUBLISHERIAP
LENGTH120
LANGUAGEEN
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 husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born. Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, an age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
4.3
Poirot Investigates
Poirot Investigates is a eleven-story collection written by Agatha Christie. In the short stories, detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries using his typical perspicacity. In The Adventure of the Western Star, a Chinese man warns a famous American film star to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the "Western Star", to the left eye of an idol. In The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor, he investigates a middle-aged man who died just a few weeks after insuring his life. In The Adventure of the Cheap Flat, Poirot avoids a murder. In The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge, Poirot, Hastings, and the Scotland Yard need to find out who murdered Harrington Pace. In The Million Dollar Bond Robbery, Poirot needs to prove the innocence of man in charge of the London and Scottish Bank while a million dollars disappeared. In The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, the widow of a famous archaeologist who died mysteriously looks for Poirot's help. In The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan, the detective aid is useful to locate stolen pearls. In The Kidnapped Prime Minister, a national crisis calls Poirot: The Prime Minister has been kidnapped. In The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim, Poirot bets five pounds he can solve in a week the case of a banker who disappears from his large country house. In The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman, Poirot and Hastings find Count Foscatini dead, his head being crushed during his last dinner. In The Case of the Missing Will, Poirot receives an unusual request from an orphan about her Uncle in Devon, who died a month before leaving a will with a strange clause.
FictionAction & AdventureClassicsMystery & DetectivePolice ProceduralTraditionalHistoricalInternational Crime & Mystery
RELEASED2021
PUBLISHERIAP
LENGTH120
LANGUAGEEN
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 husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born. Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, an age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
