The Herb of Death
- Author Agatha Christie
- Narrator Juliet Stevenson
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 5 March 2026
- Run Time 1 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss.
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What to expect
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Around the dinner table, Mrs Bantry recounts the tale of a dinner where everyone became ill and one young lady died from poisoning, after foxglove leaves had been mixed in with the sage and fed to everyone. The group decide that this mixed up stuffing was no accident and play twenty questions to deduce the killer…
Critics Review
‘The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length thriller.’ Daily Mirror
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