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Genre: Thriller, Detective

Format: Short Story

Recurring Characters: Hercule Poirot

Synopsis

This story concern cleanliness and in Poirot’s case this means helping a prime minister out of political scandal and the muckraking of the Press.

First published in Strand Magazine in the UK in 1940.

One of the Labours of Hercules.

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