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Mrs McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.50 [1] and the UK edition at nine shillings and sixpence (9/6). [2]
Appointment with Death is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 May 1938 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
Mrs McGinty's Dead The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the United States in 1951, Dodd Mead and Company. The title story was published in booklet form along with Blackman's Wood (by E. Phillips Oppenheim) in the United Kingdom in 1929 by The Reader's Library. [ 1 ]
Superintendent Spence brought to Poirot the case solved in Mrs McGinty's Dead, which they discuss in Chapter 5. The case is recollected by Poirot in Chapter 3 when Poirot recalls Mrs Oliver getting out of a car and "a bag of apples breaking". This is a reference to her second appearance in Mrs McGinty's Dead, Chapter 10.
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The character of Superintendent Spence previously appeared in Taken at the Flood, Mrs McGinty's Dead and Hallowe'en Party. The last two of these cases are discussed in Chapter 5 of the novel, along with the case retold in Five Little Pigs. Mr Goby is a recurring character in many of the later Poirot novels.
The plan was simple, with additions like the clocks taken from an unpublished mystery story that Miss Martindale had read in a manuscript. They murdered Mrs Rival before she could tell the police who hired her. Mr Bland and his sister-in-law thought their plan would baffle the police, while Mrs Bland felt she was a pawn in their schemes.
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. [2]