The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest: A Hercule Poirot Story
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Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Christie’s wildly unconventional investigator, Parker Pyne, all make appearances in The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories—a riveting collection of short stories featuring a host of murderous crimes of passion, pleasure, and profit.
There's a body in a trunk; a dead girl's reflection is caught in a mirror; and one corpse is back from the grave, while another is envisioned in the recurring nightmare of a terrified eccentric. What's behind such ghastly misdeeds? Try money, revenge, passion, and pleasure. With multiple motives, multiple victims, and multiple suspects, it's going to take a multitude of talent to solve these clever crimes.
In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest—Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne—and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their careers.
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 Mystery of the Baghdad Chest - Agatha Christie
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The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
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THE MYSTERY OF THE BAGHDAD CHEST
The words made a catchy headline, and I said as much to my friend, Hercule Poirot. I knew none of the parties. My interest was merely the dispassionate one of the man in the street. Poirot agreed.
Yes, it has a flavour of the Oriental, of the mysterious. The chest may very well have been a sham Jacobean one from the Tottenham Court Road; none the less the reporter who thought of naming it the Baghdad Chest was happily inspired. The word ‘mystery’ is also thoughtfully placed in juxtaposition, though I understand there is very little mystery about the case.
Exactly. It is all rather horrible and macabre, but it is not mysterious.
Horrible and macabre,
repeated Poirot thoughtfully.
The whole idea is revolting,
I said, rising to my feet and pacing up and down the room. The murderer kills this man—his friend—shoves him into the chest, and half an hour later is dancing in that same room with the wife of his victim. Think! If she had imagined for one moment—
True,
said Poirot thoughtfully. That much-vaunted possession, a woman’s intuition—it does not seem to have been working.
The party seems to have gone off very merrily,
I said with a slight shiver. And all that time, as they danced and played poker, there was a dead man in the room with them. One could write a play about such an idea.
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