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    The Affair at the Victory Ball: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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    The Affair at the Victory Ball: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by David Suchet

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 4, 2019
    ISBN9780008375263
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    The Affair at the Victory Ball: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha 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 70 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.

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    • 3/5
      A Poirot short story. Framed as Hastings retelling Poirot early case, this is set the night of a Victory ball. It's a fancy dress ball and the group of 6 we concern ourselves with attend dressed as the 6 characters from Commedia dell'arte. Two end up dead and the who, how and why take Poirot to get to the bottom of. He does so from a verbal report from Inspector Jaap, and a little bit a shadow play with the fancy dress costumes. It's not terribly well fleshed out, I think it relies on knowing Poirot and the way he works. That's not to say it's not enjoyable, though.
    • 3/5
      Who killed the young Lord Cronshaw at the Victory Ball, and was the death of his actress girlfriend that same night a coincidence. Poirot investigates
      Another enjoyable short story