The Second Strike of the Gong

The owner of the house was found dead in his room. All the doors and windows in the room are tightly closed, and a weapon lies next to the body. Suicide? Probably, that's what all the household members and representatives of the authorities would think, but by chance, Hercule Poirot was invited to a dinner at the house where this tragedy occurred. It is up to him to unravel the mystery of the locked room…
This book contains eight stories by Agatha Christie. In some of them, the reader will meet the beloved detectives of the queen of crime - Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin. Two more stories are completely independent; they vividly demonstrate how a complex detective plot can be developed in such a small volume of text.