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    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp with the claim that he can solve the case before the police, and without leaving his flat.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9780062210906
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    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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    • 3/5
      Poirot places a bet with Inspector Japp that he can solve the case of the missing wealthy Mr. Davenheim, who left his home to mail a letter, then failed to return. All Poirot will do in listen to all the clues and solve the puzzle within the week without doing any investigation.
      An enjoyable short mystery

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    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - Agatha Christie

    The Disappearance of

    Mr. Davenheim

    A Hercule Poirot Short Story

    by Agatha Christie

    An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

    Contents

    Cover

    Title Page

    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

    About the Author

    Back Ads

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

    ‘The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim’ was first published in The Sketch, 28 March 1923.

    Poirot and I were expecting our old friend Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard to tea. We were sitting round the tea-table awaiting his arrival. Poirot had just finished carefully straightening the cups and saucers which our landlady was in the habit of throwing, rather than placing, on the table. He had also breathed heavily on the metal teapot, and polished it with a silk handkerchief. The kettle was on the boil, and a small enamel saucepan beside it contained some thick, sweet chocolate which was more to Poirot’s palate than what he described as ‘your English poison’.

    A sharp ‘rat-tat’ sounded below, and a few minutes afterwards Japp entered briskly.

    ‘Hope I’m not late,’ he said as he greeted us. ‘To tell the truth, I was yarning with Miller, the man who’s in charge of the Davenheim case.’

    I pricked up my ears. For the last three days the papers had been full of the strange disappearance of Mr Davenheim, senior partner of Davenheim and Salmon, the well-known bankers and financiers. On Saturday last he had walked out of his house, and had never been seen since. I looked forward to extracting some interesting details from Japp.

    ‘I should have thought,’ I remarked, ‘that it would be almost impossible for anyone to disappear nowadays.’

    Poirot

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