The Double Clue [short story]

by Agatha Christie

Series: Hercule Poirot (1.85)

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Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML: Previously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. A successful jewelry collector discovers that several of his valuable pieces have been stolen. Hercule Poirot investigates, but his only clues are a man's glove and a cigarette case ... .… (more)

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Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

The Labours of Hercules [and] Double Sin by Agatha Christie (indirect)

Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot's Casebook: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

Poirot's Early Cases [and] Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie (indirect)

Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Poirot's Early Cases / Sleeping Murder / Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie (indirect)

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The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot [25 short stories] by Agatha Christie (indirect)

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

Witness for the Prosecution [and] The Double Clue by Agatha Christie

Allô, Hercule Poirot ; Poirot quitte la scène by Agatha Christie

Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives: Stories by Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie

Nye kriminalhistorier by Tage La Cour

Ellery Queen's Twentieth Century Detective Stories by Ellery Queen

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Agatha Christie's Poirot: Collector's Set 05 [Videorecording] by Renny Rye

Agatha Christie's Poirot: Tragedy at Marsdon Manor [and] Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Double Clue [1991 TV Episodes] by Renny Rye

Poirot Collection #2 - 4-disc set - The Cornish Mystery / The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim / Double Sin / The Adventure of the Cheap Flat / The Kidnapped Prime Minister / The Adventure of the Western Star / The Mysterious Affair at Styles / How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery / The Plymouth Express / Wasp's Nest / The Tragedy at Marsden Manor / The Double Clue

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"But above everything--no publicity." said Mr. Marcus Hardman for perhaps the fourteenth time.

"But above everything -- no publicity," said Mr. Marcus Hardman for perhaps the fourteenth time.

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"The Double Clue was first published in The Sketch, 5 December 1923

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Fiction. Mystery. Short Stories. HTML:

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

A successful jewelry collector discovers that several of his valuable pieces have been stolen. Hercule Poirot investigates, but his only clues are a man's glove and a cigarette case ...

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Valuable Renaissance jewels are stolen from collector Marcus Hardman. He is anxious to have no scandal, particularly since some of the suspects are aristocrats. However, he is perfectly willing to turn commoner Bernard Parker over to the police.

In: Agatha Christie, Masterpieces in Miniature, pp.489-499
----- Double Sin & other stories
-----Poirot's Early Cases

Marcus Hardman, a collector of many expensive items, calls in Poirot when he wants a discreet solution to a jewelry theft, apparently by someone he knows and invited to his house.

In: Agatha Christie, Double Sin & other stories (New York : Dodd Mead, 1961) (various reprintings)

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