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Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie's Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun.In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits.
A country gentleman is questioned about a murder yet to be committed.
While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she show more ever dared imagine possible.
In a small country church, a dying man's last word becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime.
These chilling stories, and more, cleverly wrought by master Agatha Christie and solved by the inimitable Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.
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Basically, there's a man named John Harrison (Star Trek Into Darkness, anyone?) who Poirot visits out in the country. He tells him that he's on a murder case...a murder that hasn't been committed yet. Dun Dun DUUUUUN. Yeah go and read it. It's a quick, delightful read (and I was still surprised by the conclusion because apparently Christie is a wizard).
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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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Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Poirot's Early Cases / Sleeping Murder / Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie (indirect)
Poirot Investigates / Problem at Pollensa Bay / Poirot's Early Cases / The Murder on the Links / Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (indirect)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Poirot Investigates / Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie (indirect)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side / Poirot's Early Cases / Third Girl by Agatha Christie (indirect)
Has the adaptation
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express [and] Agatha Christie's Poirot: Wasp's Nest [1991 TV Episodes] by Andrew Piddington
Poirot Collection #2 - 4-disc set - The Cornish Mystery / The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim / Double Sin / The Adventure of the Cheap Flat / The Kidnapped Prime Minister / The Adventure of the Western Star / The Mysterious Affair at Styles / How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery / The Plymouth Express / Wasp's Nest / The Tragedy at Marsden Manor / The Double Clue by David Suchet
Has as a student's study guide
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- Canonical title
- Wasps' Nest {short story}
- Original title
- The Wasps' Nest
- Original publication date
- 1928-11-20
- People/Characters
- Hercule Poirot; John Harrison; Claude Langton; Molly Deane
- First words
- Out of the house came John Harrison and stood a moment on the terrace looking out over the garden.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Oh, thank goodness you came."
- Disambiguation notice
- "Wasps' Nest" was first published as "The Wasps' Nest" in the Daily Mail, 20 November 1928.
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