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    The Market Basing Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Market Basing Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Market Basing Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    The Market Basing Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases.

    A man has apparently committed suicide, but things are not always as they appear. The housekeeper points out that the gun was in the victim's left hand, yet he was right handed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9780062298225
    The Market Basing Mystery: 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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    • 5/5
      I am always left speechless with Poirot's work. Damn the brain Christie had. This story is a must read.
    • 3/5
      While on holiday with Inspector Japp, he and Poirot are called to a suspicious death at Leigh Hall in Market Basing.
      An enjoyable mystery

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    The Market Basing Mystery - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    The Market Basing Mystery

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    THE MARKET BASING MYSTERY

    I

    ‘After all, there’s nothing like the country, is there?’ said Inspector Japp, breathing in heavily through his nose and out through his mouth in the most approved fashion.

    Poirot and I applauded the sentiment heartily. It had been the Scotland Yard inspector’s idea that we should all go for the weekend to the little country town of Market Basing. When off duty, Japp was an ardent botanist, and discoursed upon minute flowers possessed of unbelievably lengthy Latin names (somewhat strangely pronounced) with an enthusiasm even greater than that he gave to his cases.

    ‘Nobody knows us, and we know nobody,’ explained Japp. ‘That’s the idea.’

    This was not to prove quite the case, however, for the local constable happened to have been transferred from a village fifteen miles away where a case of arsenical poisoning had brought him into contact with the Scotland Yard man. However, his delighted recognition of the great man only

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