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The Herb of Death

Sir Ambrose’s dinner party is not going to plan.  Foxglove leaves, picked earlier that day, have made everyone ill and left the unfortunate Sylvia dead.  It was Sylvia herself who delivered the leaves to Cook but no one knows if she actually picked them.  Was Sylvia the victim of a murderer?  But who would want to kill the lovely Sylvia?  No, it is much more likely that the rich Sir Ambrose was the intended victim – or was it?

Christie went back to one of her favourite murder methods in this story originally published in 1930 in Storyteller.  It is included in The Thirteen Problems

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