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    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Available for the first time in the U.S., this retelling of “The Regatta Mystery” features Hercule Poirot at his finest. A diamond merchant and his party step off their yacht to enjoy the festivities at shore. But when the youngest member of the party, Eve Leathern, decides to play a trick with a £30,000 diamond named The Morning Star, the fun suddenly escalates into a dramatic jewel theft. The most suspected member of the party begs Hercule Poirot to solve the disappearance of the valuable gem, pleading that he is not the thief. But if he isn’t, who is?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 27, 2011
    ISBN9780062129598
    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie (1890–1976) is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the bestselling novelist of all time. The first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, she published eighty mystery novels and many short story collections and created such iconic fictional detectives as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. She is known around the world as the Queen of Crime.

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    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery - Agatha Christie

    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery

    A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    by Agatha Christie

    Contents

    Cover

    Title Page

    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery

    About the Author

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    Poirot and the Regatta Mystery

    ‘Poirot and the Regatta Mystery’ was first published in the USA in The Chicago Tribune on 3 May 1936, and in The Strand in June the same year. Agatha Christie rewrote the story for its first appearance in book form, substituting Parker Pyne in place of Hercule Poirot, in the American anthology The Regatta Mystery (published by Dodd, Mead in June 1939). The original version is printed here for the first time in more than 60 years.

    Mr Isaac Pointz removed a cigar from his lips and said approvingly:

    ‘Pretty little place.’

    Having thus set the seal of his approval upon Dartmouth harbour, he replaced the cigar and looked about him with the air of a man pleased with himself, his appearance, his surroundings and life generally.

    As regards the first of these, Mr Isaac Pointz was a man of fifty-eight, in good health and condition, with perhaps a slight tendency to liver. He was not exactly stout, but comfortable looking, and yachting costume, which he wore at the moment, is not the most kindly of attires for a middle-aged man with a tendency to embonpoint. Mr Pointz was very well turned out – correct to every crease and button – his dark and slightly oriental face beaming out under the peak of his yachting cap. As regards his surroundings, these may be taken to mean his companions: his partner Mr Leo Stein, Sir George and Lady Marroway, an American business acquaintance – Mr Samuel Leathern – and his schoolgirl daughter, Eve, Mrs Rustington, and Evan Llewellyn.

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