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By: Agatha Christie; adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne
Contributors: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Ulverscroft; Hercule Poirot
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781444825770
Subjects: Fiction; Classified Defense information; Private investigators
Description: Fearing for the security of his revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive, Sir Claud Amory requests the assistance of Hercule Poirot in transferring it safely to the Ministry of Defence. But when the formula disappears from its safe, Amory must change his plans. Locking his houseguests in the library, he informs them that the thief has precisely one minute of darkness in which to return the formula anonymously - or face the great detective even now on his way. The lights go off; by the time they come on again, Amory is dead in his arm-chair ...
Notes: Adult.