The Adventure of the Clapham Cook

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Summary

Genre: Murder Mystery, Detective

Format: Short Story

Location: London

Recurring Characters: Hercule Poirot

Synopsis

A missing cook is not the usual sort of case Hercule Poirot would bother with but when a bank employee goes missing on the same day, he is most definitely intrigued.

Published in the UK in 1924 in The Sketch as part of the series The Grey Cells of M. Poirot II. The short story was filmed for television in 1989 with David Suchet as Poirot.

It can be found in Poirot's Early Cases and also in The Under Dog and Other Stories in the US.

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