By Agatha Christie
Framed within the doorway of Hercule Poirot’s bed room stands an uninvited visitor, lined from head to foot in airborne dirt and dust. the guy stares for a second, then he sways and falls.
who's he? Is he struggling with surprise or simply exhaustion? particularly, what's the value of the determine four, scribbled time and again on a sheet of paper? Poirot reveals himself plunged right into a global of overseas intrigue, risking his life—and that of his “twin brother”—to discover the reality.
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I wasn’t planning to move to the Welsh Socialist Republic, of course—I needed the cash for a Welsh cheese deal I had cooking that evening. I checked that the cash was all still there and was just replacing the sheet on the car when a noise made me turn. Standing at the workbench in the half-light was my uncle Mycroft. An undeniable genius, with his keen mind he had pushed the frontiers in a range of disciplines that included genetics, fusion power, abstract geometry, perpetual motion and romantic fiction.
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