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A review by literary__escapism
The Affair at the Victory Ball: A Short Story by Agatha Christie
4.0
The Affair at the Victory Ball was first published in "Poirot's Early Cases" in 1923. The Victory Ball was to be a stunning ball that was to be talked about all season. Unfortunately it is talked about for all the wrong reasons when two people attending the ball end up dead - one from a cocaine overdose and the other stabbed. Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate and solve this one for Inspector Japp.
I'm not really a short story kind of person. I like to really immerse myself in a mystery of at least 200 pages, but I'm getting highly attached to Agatha Christie's short stories. She doesn't waste any words and packs quite a punch with her short stories.
This one with Hercule Poirot was quite interesting. The six people that attended the ball were dressed as characters from a "Italian Comedy" figurine set and it was from this set that the murderer was found.
Unlike me, Hercule Poirot had this one solved early, but being Hercule Poirot he has to do the flair of his "denouement" which I've come to admire.
The Affair at the Victory Ball was a fun short story and I'm looking forward to picking up another Agatha Christie short story soon.
I'm not really a short story kind of person. I like to really immerse myself in a mystery of at least 200 pages, but I'm getting highly attached to Agatha Christie's short stories. She doesn't waste any words and packs quite a punch with her short stories.
This one with Hercule Poirot was quite interesting. The six people that attended the ball were dressed as characters from a "Italian Comedy" figurine set and it was from this set that the murderer was found.
Unlike me, Hercule Poirot had this one solved early, but being Hercule Poirot he has to do the flair of his "denouement" which I've come to admire.
The Affair at the Victory Ball was a fun short story and I'm looking forward to picking up another Agatha Christie short story soon.