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The Dream: a Hercule Poirot Short Story (Hercule Poirot, #SS-38)
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Oct 04, 2022
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A millionaire tells Poirot that he's dreaming of suicide every night.
And to make matters more strange, he always kills himself at an oddly specific time in his office in this dream.
Has someone hypnotized him in the hopes that he will go mad and do himself in? Or is he secretly miserable and actually wants to end it all?
Poirot has no answers for him and finds the whole experience somehow disturbing.
Later, he is called back to the man's home because he apparently did kill himself.
In his office. At that designated time.
But the deeper Poirot digs, the more he finds that this unlikable man had enemies. Enemies in his own home. So, if it wasn't suicide, whodunnit and why?
Classic Poirot.
Originally published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1937.
Read as part of the short story collection The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
And to make matters more strange, he always kills himself at an oddly specific time in his office in this dream.
Has someone hypnotized him in the hopes that he will go mad and do himself in? Or is he secretly miserable and actually wants to end it all?
Poirot has no answers for him and finds the whole experience somehow disturbing.
Later, he is called back to the man's home because he apparently did kill himself.
In his office. At that designated time.
But the deeper Poirot digs, the more he finds that this unlikable man had enemies. Enemies in his own home. So, if it wasn't suicide, whodunnit and why?
Classic Poirot.
Originally published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1937.
Read as part of the short story collection The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
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October 4, 2022
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