The Missing Will

Agatha Christie's short case sends Hercule Poirot after a dead man's hidden testament, a puzzle set as a deliberate test of wits, solved by the little Belgian's endlessly methodical grey cells.

At a glance A wealthy eccentric leaves behind not a straightforward inheritance but a challenge… It is exactly the sort of intellectual game Hercule Poirot cannot resist. What it's about The Missing Will is a compact Poirot case in which a young woman… When her own efforts fail, she turns to Poirot, who applies his celebrated method to the…

The Missing Will is a compact Poirot case in which a young woman inherits her uncle's estate only on the condition that she prove her cleverness by discovering a concealed second will before a deadline.

About this book A concise Christie mystery built on disappearance, inference, and the pleasure of watching a neat problem yield to careful logic.