Project Gutenberg 2023-02-23 Public domain in the USA. 1483 Christie, Agatha 1890 1976 Christie, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller The Big Four $aUnited States :$bDell Publishing Co., Inc., $c1927, copyright 1955, pubdate 1972. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Four_(novel) The unexpected guest -- The man from the asylum -- We hear more about Li Chang Yen -- The importance of a leg of mutton -- Disappearance of a scientist -- The woman on the stairs -- The radium thieves -- In the house of the enemy -- The yellow jasmine mystery -- We investigate at Croftlands -- A chess problem -- The baited trap -- The mouse walks in -- The peroxide blonde -- The terrible catastrophe -- The dying Chinaman -- Number Four wins a trick -- In the Felsenlabyrynth. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Big Four" by Agatha Christie is a detective novel written in the late 1920s. The story features the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his friend Captain Hastings as they confront a mysterious and dangerous criminal organization known as the Big Four. The plot unfolds with Poirot facing a series of intriguing challenges that test his famed deductive skills, all while maintaining a sense of urgency and suspense. The opening of this novel introduces Captain Hastings, who is returning from a year and a half spent in South America. He eagerly anticipates reuniting with Poirot, who has taken an unexpected case. Upon visiting Poirot's residence, Hastings encounters a mysterious, mud-laden man who suffers from shock and repeatedly utters Poirot's name. This seemingly random incident foreshadows the complex web of intrigue involving the Big Four, an international gang of criminals led by a formidable Chinaman named Li Chang Yen. As Hastings and Poirot piece together the clues surrounding the unconscious man and the potential dangers posed by their newfound adversaries, readers are drawn into a mystery filled with twists and high stakes, indicating the thrilling narrative that lies ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20221227033843christie 1927 US Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Private investigators -- England -- Fiction Detective and mystery stories, English Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Mystery fiction Secret societies -- Fiction PR Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: British Literature 363770 2025-06-27T13:50:14.038532 text/html 362242 2023-12-02T12:13:02 text/html 225060 2025-06-27T13:50:20.733484 application/epub+zip 224262 2025-06-27T13:50:15.866531 application/epub+zip 224262 2025-06-27T13:50:14.726504 application/epub+zip 355430 2025-06-27T13:50:24.401444 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 333934 2025-06-27T13:50:20.035494 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 338216 2025-06-27T13:50:12.819596 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 337911 2023-04-18T03:43:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17891 2025-06-27T13:50:24.531488 application/rdf+xml 9698 2025-06-27T13:50:15.234495 image/jpeg 2666 2025-06-27T13:50:14.977506 image/jpeg 195291 2025-06-27T13:50:14.066517 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia