Agatha Christie – Ink and Inference

on the left half of the image, a group of freiends dressed in costumes look a dead body, and on the right half of the image, Hercule Poirot is seated

The Affair at the Victory Ball – Hercule Poirot’s First Short Story

The Affair at The Victory Ball is one of the many short stories written by Agatha Christie featuring the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. This is also the first Hercule Poirot short story, first published on 7th March, 1923. This was also part of the TV adapatation of “Agatha Christie’s Poirot”. There was a costume party based on an Italian play Commedia dell’arte, in which six friends participated, and two of them end up dead. This is a light and amusing read for a fiction or thriller fan to have your little grey cells exercised when you do not have the time to read an entire novel.

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Murder on The Orient Express by Agatha Christie – An Enjoyable Thriller Novel

In this classic by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot travels from one country to another by a train named the Orient Express, along with co-passengers from different countries. It snows heavily, so the train gets stranded on the way. Shocking everyone, a murder happens on the train, and M. Bouc requests Poirot to investigate the case, assuring that they all will cooperate. Because it appears to be an interesting case, the detective agrees.