The Chocolate Box (Hercule Poirot Short Story)

An Illustrated short story from the Queen of Crime. Hastings mentions his belief that Poirot had never known failure in his professional career. Poirot said that was not true and relates the one occasion when he failed to solve a crime, years earlier when he was a police detective in Brussels. Paul Déroulard had died from reported heart failure, a French Deputy who was living in Brussels. At a time of strife over the separation of church and state M. Déroulard was a key player as an anti-Ca...