The Big Four by Agatha Christie.

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The Big Four by Agatha Christie. The Big Four is a detective novel by British author Agatha Christie, first published in 1927. It features her celebrated detective Hercule Poirot, who becomes entangled in a complex web of international intrigue and espionage after a mysterious stranger collapses in his home bearing cryptic clues about a powerful criminal syndicate. The story centers on Poirot's efforts—assisted by Captain Arthur Hastings—to uncover and thwart the plans of the titular Big Four, a shadowy organization of four master criminals aiming for global domination. Adapted from a series of short stories originally published in The Sketch magazine in 1924, the novel stitches together interconnected mysteries with action-oriented sequences, distinguishing it from Christie's more purely cerebral detective tales. Agatha Christie compiled the book in 1926 with assistance from her brother-in-law, amid personal difficulties including the recent death of her mo