The Under Dog and Other Stories
- Dell Pub Co
- 192 pages
Agatha Christie: Featuring Hercule Poirot. A collection of stories featuring Hercule Poirot. They include: The Under Dog. The Plymouth Express. The Affair at the Victory Ball. The Market Basing Mystery. The Lemesurier Inheritance. The Cornish Mystery. The King of Clubs. The Submarine Plans. The Adventure of the Clapham Cook. From the inside front cover: A world where an innocent young man will die unless a killer who has committed the perfect crime is caught...a world where the trail of a disappearing cook leads into a bubbling cauldron of deception and death... a world where the heir to a family legacy of hideous horror desperately tries to escape his fate...a world where life can violently end and love turn to terror in the blink of an eye and the plunge of a knife...This is the world in which Hercule Poirot is perfectly at home as he matches wits and nerves with nine of the most fearsome foes he has ever had to hunt-and demonstrates more enthrallingly than ever before that evil does not pay when Poirot is at hand for the final reckoning... From the back cover: The Terror Team. The one and only Hercule Poirot had never been bested in the game of crime and punishment-but now he faced the most lethal lineup ever to try to break his winning streak into bloody bits. Nine perverse puzzles, each more perplexing than the last. Nine cunning culprits, masters of murder and menace, deceit and disappearance. Nine paths of peril, each leading to a startling solution. Nine new proofs positive that no matter what the odds against him, Hercule Poirot is unbeatable as the greatest detective of them all...