The Veiled Lady [short story]

by Agatha Christie

Series: Hercule Poirot (1.98)

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Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML: Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. A woman about to be married is blackmailed by a former flame who threatens to send her fiancé an old love letter she wrote.

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Agatha Christie's Poirot: Collector's Set 01 [Videorecording] by Edward Bennett

Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Veiled Lady [and] Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Lost Mine [1990 TV Episodes] by Edward Bennett

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Dama su vualiu

The Veiled Lady [short story]

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The Veiled Lady

The hound of dead

Double sin

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The Case of the Veiled Lady

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I had noticed that for some time Hercule Poirot had been growing increasingly dissatisfied and restless.

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Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML:

Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases.

A woman about to be married is blackmailed by a former flame who threatens to send her fiancé an old love letter she wrote.

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A heavily veiled lady who enters Hercule Poirot's office reveals an lovely face and a sad story. Daughter of an impoverished Irish peer, and about to make a fabulous marriage, she is being blackmailed about an indiscreet letter she wrote years before. Can Poirot outwit a cunning criminal and retrieve what has gone astray?

In: Agatha Christie, 13 for Luck! (New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1961) pp. 3-14. (various reprintings)
-----Poirot Investigates (This story was in the US, but not the UK edition)
-----Poirot's Early Cases

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