Word: poirot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...JULIE POIROT Golden City...
MURDER IN RETROSPECT-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot prods the memories of surviving participants in a 16-year-old English seaside poisoning affair, pulls out the unsuspected killer and clears the scutcheon of a young girl whose mother was convicted of the crime. An exciting exercise in high-&-low deducing...
EVIL UNDER THE SUN - Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot's little grey cells function on the implausibly executed but beautifully elucidated murder of a blonde siren at a British summer resort. Not Christie's best, but better than most...
...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...