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The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

It's been a while since we've done an Agatha Christie mystery,

and we've got a great one here for you today.

This one's called The Adventure of the Cheap Plat, and it's from her book of short mysteries called Poirot Investigates.

Before we get started, I wanted to let you listeners know that we had the MacDady of all Agatha Christie mysteries playing out at 1001 stories for the road, two

chapters every Sunday night. It's a great mystery, and if you give it a try, I know you'll enjoy it.

Again, that's 1001 stories for the road. And the story is the murder of Roger Aykroyd, voted by the

Mystery Writers Association as being the best mystery ever written. So give the murder of Roger Ackroyd, voted by the Mystery Writers Association as being the best mystery ever written.

So give the murder of Roger Ackroyd a try. And now to our story, the adventure of the cheap

flat, a Poirot investigates mystery by Agatha Christie. So far, in the cases which I have recorded, Poirot's investigations have started from the central fact, whether murder or robbery, and have proceeded from thence by a process of logical deduction to the final triumphant unraveling.

In the events I am now about to chronicle. A remarkable chain of circumstances led from the

apparently trivial incidents which first attracted Paro's attention to the sinister happenings

which completed a most unusual case. I had been spending the evening with an old friend of mine,

Gerald Parker. There had been, perhaps, about half a dozen people there besides my host and myself,

and the talk fell, as it was bound to do sooner or later, whenever Parker found himself,

on the subject of house hunting in London.

Houses and flats were Parker's special hobby.

Since the end of the war, he had occupied at least a half a dozen different flats and

masonettes.

No sooner was he settled anywhere than he would light unexpectedly upon a new find,

and with forthwith to part bag and baggage.

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