The Case of the Missing Will: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot Short Story #20)
Agatha Christie, David Suchet
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
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· 14 ratings · 29 pages · Published: 1923
Poirot receives an unusual request for help from Miss Violet Marsh who was orphaned as a child and went to live with her very peculiar Uncle Andrew. He died almost a month before the Poirot / Marsh meeting, leaving a will with a strange clause. In it he gave instructions that his "clever" niece was allowed to live in his house for one month, and in that time she has to "prove her wits" and find a more recent second will. At the end of that time, if she hasn't, all his worldly goods go to charitable institutions and she will be left with nothing. Her request? Can Poirot help?
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