The Lost Mine: A Hercule Poirot Story

By Agatha Christie

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases.

A Burmese official goes missing in London, as does his very precious cargo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Jul 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9780062298188

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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The Lost Mine

About the Author

The Agatha Christie Collection

Copyright

About the Publisher

THE LOST MINE

I laid down my bank book with a sigh.

It is a curious thing, I observed, but my overdraft never seems to grow any less.

And it perturbs you not? Me, if I had an overdraft, never should I close my eyes all night, declared Poirot.

You deal in comfortable balances, I suppose! I retorted.

Four hundred and forty-four pounds, four and fourpence, said Poirot with some complacency. A neat figure, is it not?

It must be tact on the part of your bank manager. He is evidently acquainted with your passion for symmetrical details. What about investing, say, three hundred of it in the Porcupine oil fields? Their prospectus, which is advertised in the papers today, says that they will pay one hundred per cent dividends next year.

Not for me, said Poirot, shaking his head. "I like not the sensational. For me the safe, the prudent

Reviews for The Lost Mine

[vesper1931 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Poirot tells of the case where his reward was shares in a mine in Burma. Not one of the best Poirot short stories.