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CHAPTER I THE AFFAIR AT THE VICTORY BALL
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Agatha Christie - Poirot's Early Cases
CHAPTER I THE AFFAIR AT THE VICTORY BALL
Pure chance led my friend Hercule Poirot, formerly1 chief of the Belgian force, to be connectedwith the Styles Case. His success brought him notoriety, and he decided2 to devote himself to thesolving of problems in crime. Having been wounded on the Somme and invalided3 out of theArmy, I finally took up my quarters with him in London. Since I have a first-hand knowledge ofmost of his cases, it has been suggested to me that I select some of the most interesting and placethem on record. In doing so, I feel that I cannot do better than begin with that strange tangle5 whicharoused such widespread public interest at the time. I refer to the affair at the Victory Ball.
Although perhaps it is not so fully6 demonstrative of Poirot's peculiar7 methods as some of the moreobscure cases, its sensational8 features, the well- known people involved, and the tremendouspublicity given it by the Press, make it stand out as a cause cdldbre and I have long felt that it isonly fitting that Poirot's connection with the solution should be given to the world.
It was a fine morning in spring, and we were sitting in Poirot's rooms. My little friend, neat anddapper as ever, his egg-shaped head tilted9 slightly on one side, was delicately applying a newpomade to his moustache. A certain harmless vanity was a characteristic of Poirot's and fell intoline with his general love of order and method. The Daily Newsmonger, which I had been reading,had slipped to the floor, and I was deep in a brown study when Poirot's voice recalled me.
'Of what are you thinking so deeply, mon ami?'
'To tell you the truth,' I replied, 'I was puzzling over this unaccountable affair at the Victory Ball.
The papers are full of it.' I tapped the sheet with my finger as I
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