The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

The Mystery of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha Christie

Sophie Hannah

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot – the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930’s London.Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent her a letter accusing her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met.Poirot has also never heard of a Barnabas Pandy, and has accused nobody of murder. Shaken, he goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him — a man who also claims also to have received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder of Barnabas Pandy…Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy, is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?

The Mystery of Three Quarters

THE NEW HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY

SOPHIE HANNAH

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Source ISBN: 9780008264451

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Version: 2018-09-21

Dedication (#ucdf2df14-580f-5e2e-a523-a4951138fd47)

For Faith Tilleray,

who has gone above and beyond,

and taught me so much

Table of Contents

Cover (#uaab7741a-c2ec-5a27-ad1e-243fca75eba4)

Title Page (#u5e90aa45-2d8e-58a2-a7f5-7b23cab361d9)

Copyright (#u9cd8629b-072e-5502-a39d-972a074d089f)

Dedication (#u1bcf5ac3-96cb-5495-be83-c0c3057588f2)

The First Quarter (#u03d715af-4c9c-51db-8de8-9a6ebda2df17)

Chapter 1: Poirot is Accused (#u38900c4c-1f5a-57c3-a97a-3fe6ef3054df)

Chapter 2: Intolerable Provocation (#u8997ba4a-6f35-5ba3-89c0-36f199e6d60f)

Chapter 3: The Third Person (#u138da9f4-b672-5daf-ad43-5f2f3b7a8beb)

Chapter 4: The Odd One Out? (#u2333038e-38a6-58ce-ab5c-6087c51d9ebc)

Chapter 5: A Letter with a Hole in it (#u28871c9d-81f8-5bfe-af2e-0c0f057333b1)

Chapter 6: Rowland Rope (#ufffa86fa-4b3d-5cbc-aa34-f54d882dc210)

Chapter 7: An Old Enemy (#u538828c3-65ac-5f9d-afa8-6318fe805774)

Chapter 8: Poirot Issues Some Instructions (#u27a7b685-d9c2-589d-8c47-1d1a033adc27)

Chapter 9: Four Alibis (#u5cf16cd0-5826-5a46-822e-8bd08d56f74e)

The Second Quarter (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10: Some Important Questions (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Emerald Green (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: Many Ruined Alibis (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: The Hooks (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: At Combingham Hall (#litres_trial_promo)