![]() ![]() It is these early Poirot short stories, written and published in 19, that are collected in this book. ![]() Then, the following year, Christie wrote a third set of 12 Hercule Poirot stories for The Sketch - this time arranged as a serial novel, The Man Who Was Number Four, which she later rewrote into her seventh novel, The Big Four. When they finished, they had proved so popular that Ingram asked for a second round - another 12. The popularity of Agatha Christie’s debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and the public enthusiasm for its hero, dapper Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, prompted the editor of London-based society magazine The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, to offer the author a contract for a series of 12 short stories. ![]()
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