The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

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Summary

Genre: Thriller, Detective

Format: Short Story

Setting: Hotel

Locations: Brighton, England

Recurring Characters: Hercule Poirot

Synopsis

At a lavish Brighton resort hotel, the wealthy Opalsens seem to be the victims of a theft of pearls. But their French maid had been in the room all evening, leaving only for two thirty-second intervals when the chambermaid came in to turn the beds down. How could anyone have stolen the pearls in such a short interval? Can Poirot help?

The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan appeared in Poirot Investigates and was adapted for television with David Suchet as Poirot.

This was only the second of Christie's short stories to appear in print. In the UK, it appeared in The Sketch magazine on the 14th March 1923 as The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls and in the US it appeared in October 1923 as Mrs Opalsen's Pearls.

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