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Poirot’s Early Cases
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Narrator
- David Suchet, Hugh Fraser
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 2 July 2007
- Run Time
- 8 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Short stories, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Fiction: pastiche, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
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What to expect
Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay’s death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine?
No sooner has Poirot revealed his astonishing powers of deduction than he is faced with seventeen other mysteries to test his soon-to-be-famous ‘little grey cells’.
As a matter of courtesy to a group of young people, he endeavours to solve the gruesome murder of a woman whose body they have stumbled upon whilst locked out of their flat, and with his usual precision and elan he discovers exactly how ‘Mary, Mary quite contrary’ makes her garden grow…
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Details
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Narrator
- David Suchet, Hugh Fraser
- Duration
- 8 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 July 2007
- ISBN
- 9780007250295
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Short stories, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Fiction: pastiche, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
Synopsis
Still in the formative years of his career, Hercule Poirot faces a most taxing case: who killed Lord Cronshaw? Was Coco Courtenay’s death on the same night a mere coincidence? And did she deliberately take an overdose of cocaine? No sooner has Poirot revealed his astonishing powers of deduction than he is faced with seventeen other mysteries to test his soon-to-be-famous ‘little grey cells’. As a matter of courtesy to a group of young people, he endeavours to solve the gruesome murder of a woman whose body they have stumbled upon whilst locked out of their flat, and with his usual precision and elan he discovers exactly how ‘Mary, Mary quite contrary’ makes her garden grow…
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