The Affair at the Victory Ball

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Summary

Genre: Murder Mystery, Detective

Format: Short Story

Recurring Characters: Hercule Poirot

Synopsis

At a costume ball, young Lord Cronshaw is murdered, and his fiance, Coco, dies of a cocaine overdose. Through the clever use of subterfuge, can Poirot find out who the killer is?

The Affair at the Victory Ball was printed in Poirot's Early Cases and also in The Under Dog and Other Stories in the US, and filmed for television with David Suchet.

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“Why not make my detective a Belgian?...I could see him as a tidy little man, always arranging things, liking things in pairs, liking things square ...

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