Plot summary and comments: A volume of 6 short stories, published in Britain only. 4 of the stories had already appeared in America, and the two new ones would do so in 1961 in Double Sin. Five of the stories star Poirot: The Under Dog (a long story in which Poirot correctly identifies the murderer of Sir Reuben Astwell, besting Inspector Miller; had previously appeared in the US in The Under Dog). The Dream (Poirot discoveres the murderer of millionaire Benedict Farley; a farfetched story that had previously appeared in The Regatta Mystery). Four and Twenty Blackbirds (another Poirot story based on the nursery rhyme; had appeared in Three Blind Mice). The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (an expanded version of "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest", which appeared in The Regatta Mystery; in this version the story is told in the third person, with Hastings replaced by Miss Lemon). The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Poirot reluctantly spends Christmas in an English country house, where he copes with an enormous Christmas dinner and a body in the snow; later published in the US in Double Sin). The sixth story is a Miss Marple: Greenshaw's Folly (a bit unsatisfactorythere seems no rational method for Marple to arrive at her solution; this also published in Double Sin). Courtesey of: http://stout.physics.ucla.edu/%7eyoder/mystery/christie.html ::