Poirot - Four Classic Cases

The 1930s and 40s were dangerous times. Wherever he went, Hercule Poirot was followed by death - not the death of millions at the hands of a common enemy, but death of the personal, intimate kind. In years when the world was either on the brink of war or recovering from it, life for Hercule Poirot was still murder! At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar - a man without enemies - is the first to die... When an elderly stroke victim dies intestate, jealousy and greed lead to a young woman being poisoned... A beautiful woman is found strangled to death on an isolated beach, miles from any witnesses... At a weekend's country house party, a young doctor is shot in broad daylight by the swimming pool... This omnibus volume collects together four gripping cases from a golden age of detective fiction, a time when Agatha Christie's reputation as the unrivalled Empressof the crime novel was won.