The Lost Mine {short story}
by Agatha Christie
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In Agatha Christie's short story, The Lost Mine, Poirot investigates the suspicious disappearance of a Chinese businessman in London. Suspicion is focused on two Englishmen, one of whom has an alibi and another who was in an opium den the night of the disappearance. However, a clear-cut case for Poirot soon becomes murky.Tags
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This early Hercule Poirot story was first published in the UK (The Sketch magazine) on November 21, 1923. Publication in the US followed in The Blue Book magazine in April 1925.
Poirot relates to Captain Hastings how a murder investigation earned him 14,000 shares in a mine in Burma. Poirot uses the story to not only toot his own horn about his fabulous grey cells...but also to caution Hastings about speculative investments.
I enjoyed this story. Not only was it an interesting short mystery, but it gave some cute insight into Poirot's personality. His bank balance is.... 444 pounds, four, and fourpence. Symmetrical. :) I love reading stories about Poirot's investigations, but I think if I ever met anybody so strangely fastidious I would show more dislike them immensely. :)
Agatha Christie's Poirot adapted this story for television (Season 2, episode 4). Some major changes were made to the characters, but the basic plot follows the original story. David Suchet does a wonderful job playing Poirot as usual. I think Agatha Christie would have enjoyed his portrayal of her detective....he really seems to fit her descriptions.
I'm enjoying reading all of these early Poirot short stories. For some reason, I always concentrated on Christie's novels, and never read any of her shorter mysteries. Fun to read them now! Always fun to discover a new story by a favorite author!
On to the next story: The Cornish Mystery! show less
Poirot relates to Captain Hastings how a murder investigation earned him 14,000 shares in a mine in Burma. Poirot uses the story to not only toot his own horn about his fabulous grey cells...but also to caution Hastings about speculative investments.
I enjoyed this story. Not only was it an interesting short mystery, but it gave some cute insight into Poirot's personality. His bank balance is.... 444 pounds, four, and fourpence. Symmetrical. :) I love reading stories about Poirot's investigations, but I think if I ever met anybody so strangely fastidious I would show more dislike them immensely. :)
Agatha Christie's Poirot adapted this story for television (Season 2, episode 4). Some major changes were made to the characters, but the basic plot follows the original story. David Suchet does a wonderful job playing Poirot as usual. I think Agatha Christie would have enjoyed his portrayal of her detective....he really seems to fit her descriptions.
I'm enjoying reading all of these early Poirot short stories. For some reason, I always concentrated on Christie's novels, and never read any of her shorter mysteries. Fun to read them now! Always fun to discover a new story by a favorite author!
On to the next story: The Cornish Mystery! show less
Poirot tells of the case where his reward was shares in a mine in Burma. Not one of the best Poirot short stories.
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One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 show more plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie died in 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side / Poirot's Early Cases / Third Girl by Agatha Christie (indirect)
Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Nemesis / Parker Pyne Investigates / Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (indirect)
1920's Agatha Christie, Vol. 2: The Man in the Brown Suit / The Secret of Chimneys / Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (indirect)
Hercule Poirot Bundle: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (indirect)
Poirot Investigates | The Under Dog and Other Stories | The Second Gong by Agatha Christie (indirect)
Poirot Investigates & The Body in the Library: Two Best-Selling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook by Agatha Christie (indirect)
Cards on the Table / Poirot Investigates / The Hound of Death and Other Stories by Agatha Christie (indirect)
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- Canonical title
- The Lost Mine {short story}
- Original title
- The lost mine
- Original publication date
- 1923-11-21
- People/Characters
- Hercule Poirot; Arthur Hastings; Inspector Miller; Wu Ling; Mr. Pearson; Dyer (show all 7); Charles Lester
- Important places
- Southampton, England, UK
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