The Market Basing Mystery

By Agatha Christie

Inspector Japp, Poirot and Hastings decide to enjoy a weekend in a small English town called Market Basing, but they are disturbed by a local police officer who needs their help to solve a case. What looks at first like a simple case of suicide quickly becomes more complex as Poirot interrogates the suspects. The Belgian detective will have to squeeze his gray cells and sharpen his senses to decode each of the clues.

• Language: English
• Publisher: MB Cooltura
• Release date: Feb 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9789877447842

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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Chapter 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