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Monkfish 21 Aug 09 at 7:02 a.m. GMT

to be published in Saturday's Daily Mail. If this is old news, fair enough, but anyway.......

'The Capture of Cerberus' is it's title, and it's a completely different story to the 1947 tale of the same name. It was presented for publication in 1939, but never published, possibly because it involves a Nazi dictator and might have been considered too sensitive at the time.

It was found in a cardboard box in 2005 at Christie's old holiday retreat in Devon, along with a load of other interesting stuff.

I'm not expecting a great deal from it, but it does make my Complete Poirot Short Stories collection imcomplete!

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Monkfish 21 Aug 09 at 7:04 a.m. GMT

Oops, best add that this tale is going to be spread over several editions of the paper! It's just the first part that's in tomorrow's edition.

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