Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Victory Ball
About the Story
Agatha Christie was born in southwest England to a wealthy family. Growing up, Christie enjoyed reading mystery novels by Wilkie Collins and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of Christie’s short stories were first published in periodicals and feature the eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. “The Affair at the Victory Ball” is the first short story to feature Hercule Poirot, who later became one of Christie’s most famous characters. The story was first published in The Sketch in March 1923 in the United Kingdom. The author of 66 detective novels and 15 short story collections, Christie is best known for her bestselling novel And Then There Were None and her play The Mousetrap.
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