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The LeMesurier Inheritance

By:Agatha Christie
Publisher:Wildside Press
eText ISBN:9781479441730
Edition:0
Copyright:1923
Format:Page Fidelity

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In the latter days of the First World War, Poirot and Hastings meet Captain Vincent Lemesurier and his uncle Hugo, a chemist. Cousin Roger rushes in with the news that Vincent's father has had a serious fall from a horse and is not expected to last the night. Vincent, the eldest and only of three sons to survive the war, has a strong reaction to the news -- partly due to the Lemesurier curse. No first born son has lived to inherit the family estate since the Middle Ages...