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Four sleuths, four murderers, and a Mephistopheles at a party. Dinner is served. They get up and move into an adjacent room. The four murderers divide themselves into two pairs and play bridge together. The four sleuths do the same, in a smaller adjacent room where the second bridge table has been set up. The Mephistopheles decides to take a nap on a chair in front of the fire. A simple game of bridge turns dangerous, and the Mephistopheles is killed.
“Mr. Hercule Poirot – You fancy yourself, don’t you, at solving mysteries that are too difficult for our poor, thick-headed British Police? Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be. Perhaps you’ll find this nut too hard to crack. Look out for Andover, on the 21st of this month.
Yours, etc.,
A B C”
The case was as obscure as ever, save one factor. The only thing that tied all three murders together, was the complete lack of any motive.
It is not very often, that someone announces that she is going to kill her husband, and that, too, in front of a world-famous detective…
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