The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
May 2012 · Sold by Harper Collins
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100
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Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs. Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in cases which have concerned some of the best-known jewels in the world. Excited by his anecdotes, the wealthy matron eagerly offers to show him a very expensive pearl necklace, but when she goes to retrieve it, she discovers that it has been stolen...
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4.5
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A Google user
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August 3, 2012
While the description indicates that the book is 100 pages in length, it is, in actuality, 19 pages, of which about 7-9 are actually the story, the rest of the pages are advertisements for other Agatha Christie stories.
Ashley Wilson
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June 24, 2020
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Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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