Book Review: Agatha Christie’s “The Double Clue”
It is unthinkable that a guest would have stolen a collection of medieval jewelry during a tea party! The scandal! And it’s Hercule Poirot to the rescue.
It is unthinkable that a guest would have stolen a collection of medieval jewelry during a tea party! The scandal! And it’s Hercule Poirot to the rescue.
Poirot is summoned to the home of the head of the Ministry of Defense, to investigate the theft of top-secret plans for a new submarine.
Poirot must prove the innocence of a young bank manager who has had a million dollars in bonds stolen from him while on a boat voyage to New York.
It’s Mrs Todd’s frustration over her cook leaving without a word and several articles in a sensationalist newspaper that causes Hercule Poirot to link all these “coincidences” together.
Multiple secrets are revealed as the police, Mr Clement, and Miss Marple all investigate who killed the man in the vicarage study.
A diplomat whose identity is “stolen” encounters his “thief” again and again, and each time she’s identified as a different person. Drawing Sir Stafford Nye into a game of political intrigue more dangerous than he could possibly imagine where no-one can be sure of anyone.
It’s an omnibus of nine short stories in the Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne vintage mystery series.
Agatha Christie’s Three Blind Mice and Other Stories as an omnibus of nine stories in the vintage mystery genre that includes Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Harley Quin.
Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.
When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.