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The Rajah's Emerald

When James Bond agrees to go to a fashionable holiday resort with his fiancé he can’t begin to imagine the trouble he will encounter.  An accident puts him in contact with a beautiful Emerald but will it lead him into danger?

Christie later used some of the plot and location of this story in her play Afternoon at the Seaside.

Published in the The Listerdale Mystery, 1934, and also in The Golden Ball and Other Stories.

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