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Third Girl

Agatha Christie

1969192 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1969
first published
  • 1970Pocket Books · 218 pages · ENGISBN 9780671831516
  • 1969Pocket Books · 218 pages · ENGISBN 9780671553517
  • 1973Fontana/Collins · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780006131618
  • 1986Pocket Books · 218 pages · ENGISBN 9780671542122
  • 1990G.K. Hall · 383 pages · ENGISBN 9780816146079
  • 1992HarperPaperbacks · ENGISBN 9780061003820
  • 2000Berkley Books · 264 pages · ENGISBN 9780425174715
  • 2021William Morrow · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780062073761

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast of 'Brioche' and 'Chocolat' insisting she is a murderer – and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumours surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family – and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent or insane…

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AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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