Poirot Investigates (AmazonClassics Edition)

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>An impossible grand theft in a posh Brighton hotel. The locked-room murder of an Italian nobleman. The suspicious suicide of a man worth more dead than alive.<br/>What are the motives behind these puzzling crimes? In Agatha Christie’s first collection of short stories, eleven mysteries in all, detective Hercule Poirot makes his investigations. Leave it to the unflappable Belgian sleuth and his partner, Captain Arthur Hastings, to put the pieces together.<br/>Revised edition: Previously published as Poirot Investigates, this edition of Poirot Investigates (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist legendary for penning the tales featuring fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, and fourteen short-story collections. She assumed the title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1971 for her outstanding work in literature, and the Guinness Book of World Records lists her as the bestselling novelist of all time.