The Double Clue: A Hercule Poirot Story
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Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases.
A successful jewelry collector discovers that several of his valuable pieces have been stolen. Hercule Poirot investigates, but his only clues are a man's glove and a cigarette case …
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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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Marcus Hardman asks Poirot to investigate when his jewels are stolen. Two clues left at the scene of the crime give Poirot his solution.
An enjoyable short story
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The Double Clue - Agatha Christie
Contents
The Double Clue
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Copyright
About the Publisher
THE DOUBLE CLUE
I
‘But above everything—no publicity,’ said Mr Marcus Hardman for perhaps the fourteenth time.
The word publicity occurred throughout his conversation with the regularity of a leitmotif. Mr Hardman was a small man, delicately plump, with exquisitely manicured hands and a plaintive tenor voice. In his way, he was somewhat of a celebrity and the fashionable life was his profession. He was rich, but not remarkably so, and he spent his money zealously in the pursuit of social pleasure. His hobby was collecting. He had the collector’s soul. Old lace, old fans, antique jewellery—nothing crude or modern for Marcus Hardman.
Poirot and I, obeying an urgent summons, had arrived to find the little man writhing in an agony of indecision. Under the circumstances, to call in the police was abhorrent to him. On the other hand, not to call them in was to acquiesce in the loss of some of the gems of his collection. He hit upon