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Agatha Christie wrote nearly 160 short stories. This includes the recently discovered and published The Capture of Cerberus and The Incident of the Dog's Ball. She used many of the plots in later novels and plays. Here you can discuss each one.
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The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
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Moderator1
17 Nov 09 at 10:01 a.m. GMT
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MissQuin
07 May 10 at 4:24 p.m. GMT
I really love this Poirot short story. The solution I found easy to work out, but I still enjoyed reading it, absorbing the atsmosphere of the tale .The story plays on the idea of Egyptian curses and superstitions. It's not a far fetched idea seeing as the myths surrouding King Tut's tomb still live on, strange deaths and unexaplainable happenings. Very enjoyable.
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The tomb of an Egyptian King is discovered and opened. Shortly afterwards men begin to die: Sir John Willard, Mr Bleibner, Rupert Bleibner. Is this another example of a superstitious curse being laid on a tomb? Lady Willard wants Poirot to find out one way or another before more deaths occurs.