In this episode we’ll be reading the short story, The Adventure of the Western Star, from Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie. This story, featuring Hercule Poirot, was first published in 1924 and was one of over fifty short stories and thirty-three novels by Christie featuring the egotistic, Belgian detective.
In this episode we’ll be reading The Red-Headed League, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This short story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1891. Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes character has been beloved since his first appearance in print in 1887. By 1927, the author had written 4 novels and 56 short stories featuring the observant detective.
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