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    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: A Hercule Poirot Story
    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: A Hercule Poirot Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates.

    A series of deaths around a pharaoh’s tomb is blamed on an ancient curse, but Poirot knows better.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 2, 2013
    ISBN9780062298133
    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: A Hercule Poirot Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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      Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Publisher Says: Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates.A series of deaths around a pharaoh’s tomb is blamed on an ancient curse, but Poirot knows better.My Review: A 99¢ Kindle Single and fifth season episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot.The story is set entirely in Egypt. The episode is more wide-ranging, interweaving the Egyptian archaeological dig with New York and London. The deaths that Poirot investigates are all connected to the archaeological dig; there is a suspicion that an ancient curse is in action, an idea spread by the superstitious widow of the first victim. She calls in Poirot and Hastings to determine what has occurred.The resolution of the deaths is the same in both iterations of the tale. But let me tell you somethin' the episode makes hay of the imagery reported in the story! Anubis-headed nightmares for me tonight.The horror of human greed is eternal, isn't it. Appalling what people will do for enough money.
    • 3/5
      Not long after the tomb of the pharoah King Men-her-Ra had been opened the first death occurred, of Sir John Willard. His widow employs Poirot to solve the deaths. And so Poirot and Captain Hastings go to Egypt.
      An enjoyable short mystery

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    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb - Agatha Christie

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    The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    THE ADVENTURE OF THE EGYPTIAN TOMB

    I have always considered that one of the most thrilling and dramatic of the many adventures I have shared with Poirot was that of our investigation into the strange series of deaths which followed upon the discovery and opening of the Tomb of King Men-her-Ra.

    Hard upon the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankh-Amen by Lord Carnarvon, Sir John Willard and Mr. Bleibner of New York, pursuing their excavations not far from Cairo, in the vicinity of the Pyramids of Gizeh, came unexpectedly on a series of funeral chambers. The greatest interest was aroused by their discovery. The Tomb appeared to be that of King Men-her-Ra, one of those shadowy kings of the Eighth Dynasty, when the Old Kingdom was falling to decay. Little was known about this period, and the discoveries were fully reported in the newspapers.

    An event soon occurred which took a profound hold on the public mind. Sir John Willard died quite suddenly of heart failure.

    The more sensational newspapers immediately took the opportunity of reviving all the old superstitious stories connected with the ill luck of certain Egyptian treasures. The unlucky Mummy at the British Museum, that hoary old chestnut, was dragged out with fresh zest, was quietly denied by the Museum, but nevertheless enjoyed all its usual vogue.

    A fortnight later Mr. Bleibner died of acute blood poisoning, and a few days afterwards a nephew of his shot himself in New York.

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