Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie. Short summary

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Hercule Poirot and Inspector Japp are investigating the death of a young girl. Everything looks like the poor girl committed suicide, but some of the details don’t add up.

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A novella in the Hercule Poirot series. On the night of Guy Fawkes Day celebrations, a young girl dies in a house near the carriage rows — she is found in her room with a head wound. It looks like suicide, but her roommate claims that she was not left-handed, but right-handed. Jeppe and Poirot find additional evidence — the gun was wiped clean of fingerprints, and large sums of money were withdrawn from the murdered woman’s account.

The police suspect Major Eustace, who saw the victim last, of the murder. The major turned out to be a crook and a blackmailer. Jeppe and Poirot suggest that Major Eustace was blackmailing the victim. But the murder somehow does not fit the general picture. But Poirot soon manages to make sense of the case.

The girl did commit suicide, and her friend, who found the poor girl, decided to present the case as a murder and make the Major guilty. The friend decided to take revenge on Eustace, who had ruined the girl’s life by blackmailing her and driving her to suicide.