The Adventures of the Cheap Flat

By Agatha Christie

In Agatha Christie’s short story, “The Adventure of the Cheap Flat,” Poirot’s suspicions are aroused when he hears of a sweetheart deal on a flat. Doing a little freelance investigating, he soon learns that the flat is at the center of a case of international espionage and a potentially fatal double-cross. This short story originally appeared in the May 9, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781974936038

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 ADVENTURE OF THE CHEAP FLAT

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

By

AGATHA CHRISTIE

This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2018

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About Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

About Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. She is best known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short-story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, and six romances under the name Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature.

The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

SO far, in the cases which I have recorded, Poirot’s investigations have started from the central fact, whether murder or robbery, and have proceeded from thence by a process of logical deduction to the final triumphant unravelling. In the events I am now about to chronicle, a remarkable chain of circumstances led from the apparently trivial incidents which first attracted Poirot’s attention to the sinister happenings which completed a most unusual case. 

I had been spending the evening with on old friend of mine, Gerald Parker. There had been, perhaps, about half a dozen people there besides my host

Reviews for The Adventures of the Cheap Flat

[baderb123 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Another delightful short mystery by our ol' gal christie. awesome