The Third Floor Flat [short story]

by Agatha Christie

Series: Hercule Poirot (5.2)

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Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML: Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. A woman's body is found in the third-floor flat of Friar Mansions, and who should live on the very same block but the perspicacious Hercule Poirot? .

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Agatha Christie Volume #13, The Years 1971-1976 by Agatha Christie (indirect)

Four and Twenty Blackbirds / The Love Detectives / The Third Floor Flat [Audiobook] by Agatha Christie

The Veiled Lady [and] The Third Floor Flat by Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie's Poirot: Collector's Set 11 [Videorecording] by David Suchet

Agatha Christie's Poirot: Third Floor Flat [1989 TV episode] by Brian Eastman

Agatha Christie's Poirot: Third Floor Flat [and] Agatha Christie's Poirot: Triangle at Rhodes [1989 TV Episodes] by Edward Bennett

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The Third Floor Flat [short story]

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In the third floor flat

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1929-01

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"Bother!" said Pat.

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Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML:

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

A woman's body is found in the third-floor flat of Friar Mansions, and who should live on the very same block but the perspicacious Hercule Poirot?

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When a young woman can't find her latch key, two of her friends go up to her apartment via the coal life. When they miscount the floors and enter the apartment below, it leads to the discovery of a murder.

In: Agatha Christie, Masterpieces in Miniature, pp. 443-460.
-----Three blind mice and other stories
-----Poirot's Early Cases

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