Wasp's Nest

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Summary

Genre: Thriller, Detective

Format: Short Story

Recurring Characters: Hastings, Hercule Poirot

Synopsis

When Poirot attends a garden fete he meets John Harrison and his beautiful fiance Molly Deane. As the story unfolds Poirot discovers that Molly had once been engaged to a local artist. As tension mounts, Poirot comes to believe that both Molly and John are in grave danger!

Wasp's Nest was first published in the Uk in The Daily Mail. It is the only short story that Christie herself adapted for television. In 1937 it was broadcast on the BBC in the London area. Francis Sullivan played the role of Poirot.

It can be found in Poirot's Early Cases and also in Double Sin and Other Stories in the US.

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