Mrs. McGinty's Dead

by Agatha Christie

1951 180 pages eng ★ 3.6 (9 ratings)

Poirot, disillusioned by the "senseless cruel brutality" of modern crime, pays no attention to the sad case of Mrs McGinty, an old woman apparently struck dead by her lodger for thirty pounds that she kept under a floorboard. When, however, he is asked by the investigating officer to take another lo…