How Does Your Garden Grow? [short story]

by Agatha Christie

Series: Hercule Poirot (12.5)

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Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. At a flower show, a mysterious woman gives Hercule Poirot an empty seed packet. The next day, she is found dead, and Poirot has his suspicions about the identity of the killer.

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How Does Your Garden Grow? [short story]

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

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1935-06

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Hercule Poirot

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Rosebank, Charman's Green, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Buckinghamshire, England, UK

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Hercule Poirot arranged his letters in a neat pile in front of him.

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Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. At a flower show, a mysterious woman gives Hercule Poirot an empty seed packet. The next day, she is found dead, and Poirot has his suspicions about the identity of the killer.

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Hercule Poirot receives a letter from Amelia Barrowby requesting his discreet help in investigating a "delicate family matter", which she may want hushed up. When he goes to her home to keep his appointment, Poirot finds that she is dead, and her niece and her husband, and her companion are squabbling over the inheritance, and that one of the parties is probably the murderer.

First US publication: "June 1935 (Volume LII, Number 6) issue of the Ladies Home Journal with illustrations by Mead Schaeffer." Wikipedia page

In: Agatha Christie, Regatta Mystery and Other Stories (New York : Berkeley Books, 1984), pp. 53-76.
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