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    The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: A Hercule Poirot Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases.

    A chef and a bank employee go missing on the same day, leading Hercule Poirot to believe a sinister plot is cooking.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9780062298232
    The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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      The Adventure of the Clapham Cook - Agatha Christie

      Contents

      The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

      About the Author

      The Agatha Christie Collection

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      THE ADVENTURE OF THE CLAPHAM COOK

      I

      At the time that I was sharing rooms with my friend Hercule Poirot, it was my custom to read aloud to him the headlines in the morning newspaper, the Daily Blare.

      The Daily Blare was a paper that made the most of any opportunity for sensationalism. Robberies and murders did not lurk obscurely in its back pages. Instead they hit you in the eye in large type on the front page.

      ABSCONDING BANK CLERK DISAPPEARS WITH FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS’ WORTH OF NEGOTIABLE SECURITIES, I read.

      HUSBAND PUTS HIS HEAD IN GAS-OVEN. UNHAPPY HOME LIFE. MISSING TYPIST. PRETTY GIRL OF TWENTY-ONE. WHERE IS EDNA FIELD?

      ‘There you are, Poirot, plenty to choose from. An absconding bank clerk, a mysterious suicide, a missing typist—which will you have?’

      My friend was in a placid mood. He quietly shook his head.

      ‘I am not greatly attracted to any of them, mon ami. Today I feel inclined for the life of ease. It would have to be a very interesting problem to tempt me from my chair. See you, I have affairs of importance of my own to attend to.’

      ‘Such as?’

      ‘My wardrobe, Hastings. If I mistake not, there is on my new grey suit the spot of grease—only the unique spot, but it is sufficient to trouble me. Then there is my winter overcoat—I

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