The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

By Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs. Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in cases which have concerned some of the best-known jewels in the world. Excited by his anecdotes, the wealthy matron eagerly offers to show him a very expensive pearl necklace, but when she goes to retrieve it, she discovers that it has been stolen...

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: May 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9780062210913

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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The Jewel Robbery at the

Grand Metropolitan

A Hercule Poirot Short Story

by Agatha Christie

An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

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The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

‘The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan’ was first published as ‘The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls’ in The Sketch, 14 March 1923.

‘Poirot,’ I said, ‘a change of air would do you good.’

‘You think so, mon ami?’

‘I am sure of it.’

‘Eh – eh?’ said my friend, smiling. ‘It is all arranged, then?’

‘You will come?’

‘Where do you propose to take me?’

‘Brighton. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine in the City put me on to a very good thing, and – well, I have money to burn, as the saying goes. I think a weekend at the Grand Metropolitan would do us all the good in the world.’

‘Thank you, I accept most gratefully. You have the good heart to think of an old man. And the good heart, it is in the end worth all the little grey cells. Yes, yes, I who speak to you am in danger of forgetting that sometimes.’

I did not relish the implication. I fancy that Poirot is sometimes a little inclined to underestimate my mental capacities. But his pleasure was so evident that I put my slight annoyance aside.

‘Then, that’s all right,’ I said hastily.

Saturday evening saw us dining at the Grand Metropolitan in the midst of a gay throng. All the world and his wife seemed

Reviews for The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

[nadinec.keels · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Detective Hercule Poirot is with his friend Captain Arthur Hastings at the Grand Metropolitan Hotel when a wealthy matron's pearls go missing in The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan by author Agatha Christie.I've read very little of Christie's work (so far, at least) and haven't done so since my adolescence. But I was in the mood for a good old-fashioned mystery, and though I do read murder mysteries from time to time, I more often look for mysteries that aren't about murder.And since I didn't have much time, it was the perfect occasion for an entertaining short story.No, I'd not read anything about Poirot and Hastings before, but that didn't make this any less enjoyable. The robbery case has just the number of twists to keep it interesting and all of the cleverness and the quirky-and-proper kind of humor I was hoping to find here.I'm sure I'll be reading more about Hercule Poirot, likely sooner than later.

[vesper1931 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Captain Hastings invites Hercule Poirot to Brighton and the Grand Metropolitan Hotel for a weekend. While talking to a wealthy stockbroker and his wife, Mrs. Opalsen, she insists on showing Poirot a pearl necklace only for it to have been stolen. Poirot is asked by Mrs Opalsen to discover her necklace.
An enjoyable short story mystery