A 1927 novel with Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings as protagonists. The book was published shortly after the death of Agatha's mother and her divorce from her first husband. There was no inspiration, so the author reworked the stories previously published only in magazines, combined them with the confrontation of Hercule Poirot and the international criminal organization "Big Four", and we got a novel of the same name. Hercule Poirot so many intricate cases unraveled – why would he not reveal and defuse the world conspiracy? To Hercule Poirot came a strange stranger, said no less strange th