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.