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Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. On a ship bound for Egypt, a woman is found stabbed to death in her cabin. Unfortunately for the murderer, Hercule Poirot is on board.Tags
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Book 85 - Agatha Christie - Problem at Sea
My first ever Agatha Christie story read…just realised that. My wife and I watched all the brilliant David Suchet TV series and marvelled at how he kept all the eccentricities of the Belgian…not French detective.
This is a wonderful short, if relatively straightforward, murder mystery told in a manner befitting Poirot…as he is a passenger on a cruise ship and he soon finds himself up to his neck in conniving characters and the death of a typically 1930s Lady. Who is to blame ? Who did the deed ?
For a short story it was fairly simple to surmise…but what did surprise me was Poirot’s methods..utilising both Watson and Holmes as well as a bit of the slight of hand from the old music hall show more days…charming… show less
My first ever Agatha Christie story read…just realised that. My wife and I watched all the brilliant David Suchet TV series and marvelled at how he kept all the eccentricities of the Belgian…not French detective.
This is a wonderful short, if relatively straightforward, murder mystery told in a manner befitting Poirot…as he is a passenger on a cruise ship and he soon finds himself up to his neck in conniving characters and the death of a typically 1930s Lady. Who is to blame ? Who did the deed ?
For a short story it was fairly simple to surmise…but what did surprise me was Poirot’s methods..utilising both Watson and Holmes as well as a bit of the slight of hand from the old music hall show more days…charming… show less
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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 Golden Ball / The Man in the Brown Suit / The Regatta Mystery / They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie (indirect)
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)
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- Canonical title
- Problem at Sea {short story}
- Original title
- Problem at Sea
- Alternate titles
- Poirot and the crime in cabin 66
- Original publication date
- 1936-01-12
- People/Characters
- Hercule Poirot; Ellie Henderson; General Forbes; John Clapperton (Colonel Clapperton); Adeline Clapperton (formerly Lady Carrington); old gentleman (show all 8); Kitty Mooney; Pamela Cregan
- Important places
- Alexandria, Egypt
- First words
- "Colonel Clapperton!" said General Forbes.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I do not approve of murder," said Hercule Poirot.
- Disambiguation notice
- Originally published as "Poirot and the Crime in Cabin 66."
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