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    The Chocolate Box: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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    The Chocolate Box: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
    Audiobook40 minutes

    The Chocolate Box: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Fenella Woolgar

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    About this audiobook

    A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio.

    Sitting in front of a fire, Hastings listens as Poirot recounts his greatest failure. When a wealthy French deputy dies, everyone believes it is from natural causes. Poirot is on vacation from the Belgian police when a young lady comes to him convinced the man was poisoned. She creates a guise for him to enter the house as a journalist to investigate…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 18, 2021
    ISBN9780008407537
    Author

    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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    • 3/5
      Poirot tells of a case to Captain Hastings which was for him a 'failure'. Virginie Mesnard asks Poirot to investigate the sudden death of her cousin by marriage of M. Paul Deroulard.
      Another short enjoyable mystery