A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio.A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio.A woman leaves a fancy dress ball early and is later found to have died from a drugs overdose. Hercule Poirot investigates in this, the first story written about him.‘The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length thriller.’ Daily MirrorAgatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.Competition: murder under the sun;death on the nile;the;mysterious affair at styles;evil under the sun;last seance;bodies from the library;midwinter murder;midsummer mysteries. by;ann cleeves;freeman wills crofts;arthur conan doyle;dean koontz;lucy foley;sophie hannah;lucy clarke;val mcdermid;nina de gramont
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