The Market Basing Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Story
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Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases.
A man has apparently committed suicide, but things are not always as they appear. The housekeeper points out that the gun was in the victim's left hand, yet he was right handed.
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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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am always left speechless with Poirot's work. Damn the brain Christie had. This story is a must read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While on holiday with Inspector Japp, he and Poirot are called to a suspicious death at Leigh Hall in Market Basing.
An enjoyable mystery
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The Market Basing Mystery - Agatha Christie
Contents
The Market Basing Mystery
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
About the Publisher
THE MARKET BASING MYSTERY
I
‘After all, there’s nothing like the country, is there?’ said Inspector Japp, breathing in heavily through his nose and out through his mouth in the most approved fashion.
Poirot and I applauded the sentiment heartily. It had been the Scotland Yard inspector’s idea that we should all go for the weekend to the little country town of Market Basing. When off duty, Japp was an ardent botanist, and discoursed upon minute flowers possessed of unbelievably lengthy Latin names (somewhat strangely pronounced) with an enthusiasm even greater than that he gave to his cases.
‘Nobody knows us, and we know nobody,’ explained Japp. ‘That’s the idea.’
This was not to prove quite the case, however, for the local constable happened to have been transferred from a village fifteen miles away where a case of arsenical poisoning had brought him into contact with the Scotland Yard man. However, his delighted recognition of the great man only