By Agatha Christie
1960
First Edition

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan
(1890 – 1976), was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers, particularly in the mystery genre.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The six stories in this book are further proof, if it were needed, that as hostess and chef Agatha Christie can serve up a banquet which will satisfy gourmets of the detective story.

In five of them Hercule Poirot is seen at the top of his incomparable form - whether he is involved in the ominous affair of The Dream or in The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, a matter which, strictly speaking, was no business of his. He was introduced to the case of The Under Dog by a girl whose calm and unemotional voice belied the tale of violence and tragedy she told, but in Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds the little Belgian diagnosed murder whilst enjoying a quiet dinner with a friend in a Chelsea restaurant. In The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding he is again involved with food, but, this time, accompanied by unseasonable deeds of ill-will which beset his first experience of the traditional English Christmas.

In the sixth story, Greenshaw's Folly, Miss Marples, calmly and character-istically, finds and solves murder on her doorstep and provides a story which adds further variety to the menu of a feast fit for a king- prepared and served by the Queen of Crime.

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R1,500