
The Big Four
- 223 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1927
- 121 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
They are a vicious international quartet of criminals known as "The Big Four". Number One was a brilliant Chinese, the greatest criminal brain of all time; Number Two was a USAmerican multi-millionaire; Number Three was a beautiful Frenchwoman scientist; and Number Four was "the destroyer," the ruthless murderer with a genius for disguise, whose business it was to remove those who interfered with his masters plans. These four, working together, is a partnership with one simple goal, establish world dominance with murders.
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot was preparing for a voyage to South America when an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in mud, stood at his doorway, collapsed, then recovered long enough to scribble the number four on a piece of paper. Now, "The Big Four" pursues eliminate the only man who can foil them: Hercule Poirot. It's up to Poirot and his faithful assistant Hastings to follow the clues and stop the deadly cabal from achieving its devastating end.
Good for readers who want: a mystery, spy fiction, and a book they can read free online.
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Mystery & detective, traditional
- Crime
- Thrillers, espionage
- Comic books, strips
- Parodies, imitations
- Hercule Poirot
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