The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: A Hercule Poirot Short Story
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Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp with the claim that he can solve the case before the police, and without leaving his flat.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Poirot places a bet with Inspector Japp that he can solve the case of the missing wealthy Mr. Davenheim, who left his home to mail a letter, then failed to return. All Poirot will do in listen to all the clues and solve the puzzle within the week without doing any investigation.
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The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim - Agatha Christie
The Disappearance of
Mr. Davenheim
A Hercule Poirot Short Story
by Agatha Christie
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Contents
Cover
Title Page
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
About the Author
Back Ads
Copyright
About the Publisher
The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim
‘The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim’ was first published in The Sketch, 28 March 1923.
Poirot and I were expecting our old friend Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard to tea. We were sitting round the tea-table awaiting his arrival. Poirot had just finished carefully straightening the cups and saucers which our landlady was in the habit of throwing, rather than placing, on the table. He had also breathed heavily on the metal teapot, and polished it with a silk handkerchief. The kettle was on the boil, and a small enamel saucepan beside it contained some thick, sweet chocolate which was more to Poirot’s palate than what he described as ‘your English poison’.
A sharp ‘rat-tat’ sounded below, and a few minutes afterwards Japp entered briskly.
‘Hope I’m not late,’ he said as he greeted us. ‘To tell the truth, I was yarning with Miller, the man who’s in charge of the Davenheim case.’
I pricked up my ears. For the last three days the papers had been full of the strange disappearance of Mr Davenheim, senior partner of Davenheim and Salmon, the well-known bankers and financiers. On Saturday last he had walked out of his house, and had never been seen since. I looked forward to extracting some interesting details from Japp.
‘I should have thought,’ I remarked, ‘that it would be almost impossible for anyone to disappear
nowadays.’
Poirot