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    <namePart>Christie, Agatha</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1890-1976</namePart>
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  <abstract>"The Big Four" by Agatha Christie is a detective novel published in 1927. When a dying stranger staggers into Hercule Poirot's bedroom and whispers about an international crime cartel, the famous detective and his friend Hastings find themselves pursuing a shadowy organization led by four powerful masterminds. Their investigation takes them across countries as they uncover kidnappings, mysterious murders, and a deadly new weapon, all orchestrated by criminals who seem always one step ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.)</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>The unexpected guest -- The man from the asylum -- We hear more about Li Chang Yen -- The importance of a leg of mutton -- Disappearance of a scientist -- The woman on the stairs -- The radium thieves -- In the house of the enemy -- The yellow jasmine mystery -- We investigate at Croftlands -- A chess problem -- The baited trap -- The mouse walks in -- The peroxide blonde -- The terrible catastrophe -- The dying Chinaman -- Number Four wins a trick -- In the Felsenlabyrynth.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Four_(novel)</note>
  <note>Release date is 2023-02-23</note>
  <note>Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net</note>
  <note>Originally published: United States: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1927</note>
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    <topic>Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction</topic>
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