![]() ![]() The thing that immediately struck me about this story is the way in which it is suffused with an air of glamour and celebrity. As is usual in these stories, however, nothing is quite as it seems. ![]() The story concerns an apparent plot by some nefarious Chinamen to steal both the ‘Western Star’, belonging to film actress Mary Marvell, and the ‘Eastern Star’ belonging to Lady Yardley. It was later collected in book form as the first story in Poirot Investigates (1924). ![]() This short story was first published in The Sketch on 11 April 1923 (Issue 1576) and is part of Christie’s lengthy run of weekly Poirot stories for that periodical. ![]()
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