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To Dr and Mrs Campbell Thompson
Contents
About Agatha Christie
The Agatha Christie Collection
E-book Extras
1 A Theatrical Party
2 A Supper Party
3 The Man with the Gold Tooth
4 An Interview
5 Murder
6 The Widow
7 The Secretary
8 Possibilities
9 The Second Death
10 Jenny Driver
11 The Egoist
12 The Daughter
13 The Nephew
14 Five Questions
15 Sir Montagu Corner
16 Mainly Discussion
17 The Butler
18 The Other Man
19 A Great Lady
20 The Taxi-Driver
21 Ronald’s Story
22 Strange Behaviour of Hercule Poirot
23 The Letter
24 News from Paris
25 A Luncheon Party
26 Paris?
27 Concerning Pince-Nez
28 Poirot Asks a Few Questions
29 Poirot Speaks
30 The Story
31 A Human Document
Copyright
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About the Publisher
Chapter 1
A Theatrical Party
The memory of the public is short. Already the intense interest and excitement aroused by the murder of George Alfred St Vincent Marsh, fourth Baron Edgware, is a thing past and forgotten. Newer sensations have taken its place.
My friend, Hercule Poirot, was never openly mentioned in connection with the case. This, I may say, was entirely in accordance with his own wishes. He did not choose to appear in it. The credit went elsewhere—and that is how he wished it to be. Moreover, from Poirot’s own peculiar private point of view, the case was one of his failures. He always swears that it was the chance remark of a stranger in the street that put him on the right track.
However that may be, it was his genius that discovered the truth of the affair. But for Hercule Poirot I doubt if the crime would have been brought home to its perpetrator.
I feel therefore that the time has come for me to set down all I know of the affair in black and white. I know the ins and outs of the case thoroughly and I may also mention that I shall be fulfilling the wishes of a very fascinating lady in so doing.
I have often recalled that day in Poirot’s prim neat little sitting-room when, striding up and down a particular strip of carpet, my little friend gave us his masterly and astounding résuméof the case. I am going to begin my narrative where he did on that occasion—at a London theatre in June of last year.
Carlotta Adams was quite the rage in London at that moment. The year before she had given a couple of matinees which had been a wild success. This year she had had a three weeks’ season of which this was the last night but one.
Carlotta Adams was an American girl with the most amazing talent for ............

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