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    Wasps' Nest: A Hercule Poirot Story
    Wasps' Nest: A Hercule Poirot Story
    Wasps' Nest: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    Wasps' Nest: A Hercule Poirot Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun.

    In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits.

    A country gentleman is questioned about a murder yet to be committed.

    While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever dared imagine possible.

    In a small country church, a dying man’s last word becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime.

    These chilling stories, and more, cleverly wrought by master Agatha Christie and solved by the inimitable Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 23, 2013
    ISBN9780062298461
    Wasps' Nest: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 4/5
      Basically, there's a man named John Harrison (Star Trek Into Darkness, anyone?) who Poirot visits out in the country. He tells him that he's on a murder case...a murder that hasn't been committed yet. Dun Dun DUUUUUN. Yeah go and read it. It's a quick, delightful read (and I was still surprised by the conclusion because apparently Christie is a wizard).

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    Wasps' Nest - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    Wasps’ Nest

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    WASPS’ NEST

    Out of the house came John Harrison and stood a moment on the terrace looking out over the garden. He was a big man with a lean, cadaverous face. His aspect was usually somewhat grim but when, as now, the rugged features softened into a smile, there was something very attractive about him.

    John Harrison loved his garden, and it had never looked better than it did on this August evening, summery and languorous. The rambler roses were still beautiful; sweet peas scented the air.

    A well-known creaking sound made Harrison turn his head sharply. Who was coming in through the garden gate? In another minute, an expression of utter astonishment came over his face, for the dandified figure coming up the path was the last he expected to see in this part of the world.

    By all that’s wonderful, cried Harrison. Monsieur Poirot!

    It was, indeed,

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