Agatha Christie 
The Market Basing Mystery 

In Agatha Christie’s short story, 'The Market Basing Mystery, ’ Poirot and Hastings are called on to investigate the suspicious death of a landowner in a small English town. What looks at first like a simple case of suicide quickly becomes more complex as Poirot interrogates the suspects in the home. This short story originally appeared in the October 17, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.