The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest {short story}
by Agatha Christie
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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 show more 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.
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Poirot understands that the beautiful, child-like innocence of a young woman can be a dangerous thing. Here in The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest the girl’s allure leads to her husband’s murder. Her lover of course is blamed, but was it someone else who committed the deed?
Our favorite Belgian detective — well, actually the only one we know — uncovers a plan for murder so ingenious in both its method and execution that Poirot is in awe of its artistry. Point in fact can’t help but lament to Hastings that such cleverness was wasted on murder! Wonderful story.
Our favorite Belgian detective — well, actually the only one we know — uncovers a plan for murder so ingenious in both its method and execution that Poirot is in awe of its artistry. Point in fact can’t help but lament to Hastings that such cleverness was wasted on murder! Wonderful story.
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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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- Canonical title
- The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest {short story}
- Original title
- The mystery of the Baghdad chest
- Original publication date
- 1932-01
- People/Characters
- Hercule Poirot; Arthur Hastings; James Japp; Edward Clayton; Marguerita Clayton; Jack Rich (Major Rich) (show all 11); Major Curtiss; Mr. Spence; Mrs. Spence; Lady Chatterton (Alice); Burgoyne (Valet of Major Rich)
- First words
- The words made a catchy headline, and I said as much to my friend, Hercule Poirot.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A perfect murder, mon ami. I, Hercule Poirot say it to you. A perfect murder. Épatant!
- Disambiguation notice
- The "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest" is a re-writing of "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest," but they are not identical and s... (show all)hould not be combined.
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- English, Finnish
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- Paper, Ebook
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