The mystery of three quarters
Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met. She is furious to be so accused, and deeply shocked. Poirot is equally shocked, because he too has never heard of any Barnabas Pandy, and he certainly did not send the letter in question. He cannot convince Sylvia Rule of his innocence, however, and she marches away in a rage. Shaken, Poirot goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting for him--a man called John McCrodden who also claims also to have received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder of Barnabas Pandy... Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy, is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? And can Poirot find out the answers without putting more lives in danger?
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344 pages ; 24 cm. - Edition First U.S. edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.
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Table of Contents
The Mystery of Three Quarters : The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Part I | The First Quarter | |
1 | Poirot Is Accused | p. 3 |
2 | Intolerable Provocation | p. 11 |
3 | The Third Person | p. 19 |
4 | The Odd One Out? | p. 28 |
5 | A Letter with a Hole in It | p. 44 |
6 | Rowland Rope | p. 51 |
7 | An Old Enemy | p. 59 |
8 | Poirot Issues Some Instructions | p. 67 |
9 | Four Alibis | p. 71 |
Part II | The Second Quarter | |
10 | Some Important Questions | p. 89 |
11 | Emerald Green | p. 97 |
12 | Many Ruined Alibis | p. 105 |
13 | The Hooks | p. 116 |
14 | At Combirigham Hall | p. 123 |
15 | The Scene of the Possible Crime | p. 133 |
16 | The Opportunity Man | p. 141 |
17 | Poirot's Trick | p. 153 |
18 | Mrs. Dockerill's Discovery | p. 167 |
19 | Four More Letters | p. 174 |
Part III | The Third Quarter | |
20 | The Letters Arrive | p. 183 |
21 | The Day of the Typewriters | p. 192 |
22 | The Solitary Yellow Square of Cake | p. 195 |
23 | Meaning Harm | p. 200 |
24 | Ancient Enmities | p. 212 |
25 | Poirot Returns to Combingham Hall | p. 219 |
26 | The Typewriter Experiment | p. 234 |
27 | The Bracelet and the Fan | p. 239 |
28 | An Unconvincing Confession | p. 246 |
29 | An Unexpected Eel | p. 251 |
30 | The Mystery of Three Quarters | p. 256 |
Part IV | The Fourth Quarter | |
31 | A Note for Mr. Porrott | p. 273 |
32 | Where Is Kingsbury? | p. 280 |
33 | The Marks on the Towel | p. 287 |
34 | Rebecca Grace | p. 297 |
35 | Family Loyalty | p. 306 |
36 | The True Culprit | p. 318 |
37 | The Will | p. 329 |
38 | Rowland Without a Rope | p. 337 |
39 | A New Typewriter | p. 342 |
Acknowledgments | p. 345 | |
Books by Agatha Christie | p. 347 |