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The Nemean Lion [short story] (1940)

by Agatha Christie

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The Nemean Lion [short story]
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1940
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Hercule Poirot
Sir Joseph Hoggin
Miss Amy Carnaby
Captain Curtis
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"Anything of interest this morning, Miss Lemon?" Hercule Poirot asked as he entered the room.
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The first of 12 stories ("Cases") described by Hercule Poirot in the collection, "Labours of Hercules". Miss Lemon finds the first of the labours in a letter from a bluff outspoken Northern businessman, Sir Joseph Hoggin, whose wife's Pekingese dog (Shan-Tung) has been kidnapped. Poirot meets Hoggin who tells him the dog was taken a week ago but returned for a ransom of two hundred pounds.

In: Agatha Christie, The Labors of Hercules

-----13 for Luck! (New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.) pp. 15-42


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