Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie

Author:Agatha Christie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Armed with introductions from a certain influential quarter, Hercule Poirot found no difficulty at all in dealing with the coroner for the district.

‘A curious figure, the deceased man Gascoigne,’ he observed. ‘A lonely, eccentric old fellow. But his decease seems to arouse an unusual amount of attention?’

He looked with some curiosity at his visitor as he spoke.

Hercule Poirot chose his words carefully.

‘There are circumstances connected with it, Monsieur, which make investigation desirable.’

‘Well, how can I help you?’

‘It is, I believe, within your province to order documents produced in your court to be destroyed, or to be impounded – as you think fit. A certain letter was found in the pocket of Henry Gascoigne’s dressing-gown, was it not?’

‘That is so.’

‘A letter from his nephew, Dr George Lorrimer?’

‘Quite correct. The letter was produced at the inquest as helping to fix the time of death.’

‘Which was corroborated by the medical evidence?’

‘Exactly.’

‘Is that letter still available?’

Hercule Poirot waited rather anxiously for the reply.

When he heard that the letter was still available for examination he drew a sigh of relief.

When it was finally produced he studied it with some care. It was written in a slightly cramped handwriting with a stylographic pen.

It ran as follows:

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