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The Second Gong


A Mystery Short Story


Companion Book to the Hercule Poirot Series


Subgenres:

  • Classic Detective,
  • Country House Mystery
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  • Country house mysteries with eccentric hosts and strict dinner rituals
  • Poirot arriving to unravel secrets after a baffling disappearance
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England is owned by the last remaining heir and is a house ruled by his intolerable whims.

Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays selected music and dinner is timed exactly by the resounding gong, no matter to trifle with.

Rushing down at the hearing of the second, or is it the first gong, Joan Ashby is about to find out that not only is dinner delayed, but, she is about to hear a sound that no one can explain.

Everyone is thrown into disarray when Old Hubert never materialises and instead a new guest is announced.

The new guest is Hercule Poirot himself.

What unfolds is a mystery of lovers, michalmas daisies and a death that is not as it appears.

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