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    The Case of the Missing Will: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Case of the Missing Will: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Case of the Missing Will: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    The Case of the Missing Will: A Hercule Poirot Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates.

    When Violet Marsh's late uncle's first will seems to be a prank, she is desperate to find the second one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 9, 2013
    ISBN9780062298171
    The Case of the Missing Will: 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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      Fifty Poirot stories...I'm finally getting to the point where I can tell her better short stories apart; some of these gave a lot of clues during the solution. "What? Why didn't you tell me this earlier?" Like the conclusion of an essay, the solution of a mystery may not provide new information. Nyaa.But, on the whole--enjoyable to read. I just like Poirot, though.

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    The Case of the Missing Will - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    The Case of the Missing Will

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    THE CASE OF THE MISSING WILL

    The problem presented to us by Miss Violet Marsh made rather a pleasant change from our usual routine work. Poirot had received a brisk and businesslike note from the lady asking for an appointment, and had replied asking her to call upon him at eleven o’clock the following day.

    She arrived punctually—a tall, handsome young woman, plainly but neatly dressed, with an assured and businesslike manner. Clearly a young woman who meant to get on in the world. I am not a great admirer of the so-called New Woman myself, and, in spite of her good looks, I was not particularly prepossessed in her favour.

    My business is of a somewhat unusual nature, Monsieur Poirot, she began, after she had accepted a chair. I had better begin at the beginning and tell you the whole story.

    If you please, mademoiselle.

    "I am an orphan. My father was one

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