The Affair at the Victory Ball (Hercule Poirot Short Story)

by Agatha Christie, Boketto Reads (Editor)

Overview

The very first short story Agatha Christie published featuring her famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot and the second mystery after introducing Poirot in her inaugural The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Affair at the Victory Ball shows Poirot, supported by his friend Captain Arthur Hastings, and working with Inspecter Japp of Scotland Yard, solving the murder of Viscount Cronshow. The aristocrat was stabbed through the heart at a Commedia dell'arte flavored Victory Ball, while an American actress attending with a romantic relationship to Cronshow is found dead in her hotel room. Poirot's investigation of the range of suspects at the ball and the satisfying conclusion makes this an exciting early Christie mystery.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162864639
Publisher:	Boketto Reads
Publication date:	05/13/2020
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	755,110
File size:	181 KB

About the Author

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is renowned as one of the greatest mystery writers of all time and is the author of 66 detective novels and at least 14 short story collections. Particularly known for her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, she is the best-selling novelist of all time, according to Guinness World Records, with over 2 billion copies of her books sold. Her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920, and her last, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976.

Christie was the first recipient of the Mystery Writers Of America’s Grand Master Award in 1955, and her novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by the Crime Writers’ Association in 2013. She died in January 1976 at the age of eighty-five.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com