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A hercule poirot mystery hercule poirot series book. At the advice of her brotherinlaw, christie reworked a 12week serial, the man who was number four, that shed written for the sketch magazine in the uk three years, cobbling it together to make a fulllength novel. Agatha christies story of 10 strangers who are picked off one by one after being lured to an island mansion, and then there were none, has beaten murder on. A hercule poirot mystery hercule poirot series book 5. There are a great many writers of the detective story and novel in the twenties and thirties.
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