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I’m hugely grateful also to my amazing agent Peter Straus and everyone at Rogers, Coleridge & White, to my family and friends, and to my lovely readers and fellow Poirot-and-Agatha fans. Thank you to Emily Winslow for her incisive editorial feedback, to Kate Jones for all her amazing help in the last year and a half, to my Dream Authors who are all amazing and ace and teach me so much, and to Faith Tilleray, my website and tech guru. Thank you also to Claire George, who suggested the name of another character: Marcus Capeling—a great name which I loved as soon as I heard it.
And last but most, thanks to the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, whose books never stop delighting and surprising me, no matter how many times I read them.
Contents
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Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
1. Midnight Gathering
2. The Seat of Danger
3. Richard Devonport’s Letter
4. The Missing Manifest
5. An Abstract Confession
6. The Devonport Family
7. Confessions for Dinner
8. The Chronology
9. The Training of the Brain
10. Helen Acton
11. A Body at Little Key
12. Irritating Little Questions
13. Aunt Hester
14. Poirot Makes a Task List
15. A New Confession
16. Little Key, Heavy Door
Epilogue
The Agatha Christie Collection
Keep Reading …
About the Authors
Also by Sophie Hannah
About the Publisher
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It is not midnight when this tale begins, but ten minutes before two on the afternoon of 22nd February 1931. That was when the strangeness started, as M. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool (his friend, and the teller of this story) stood with thirty strangers in a dispersed huddle—no one too close to anybody else, but all of us easily identifiable as an assembly—on London’s Buckingham Palace Road.
Our group of men and women and one child (an infant carried by his mother in a bundle arrangement that presented a rather mummified appearance) were soon to be travellers on a journey that felt peculiar and puzzling to me long before I knew quite how extraordinary it would become.