The story is based on a series of short stories that she worked into a novel in order to earn some much-needed money. She finished the novel in 1926, in the wake of her traumatic divorce and the death of her mother. Agatha Christie would have been familiar with this usage, as she was writing this book 7 years later. The Big Four is generally considered to be one of Christie's most controversial (and least successful) novels. It was composed of Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clemenceau of France. 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. The Big Four are also known as the Council of Four. In the 1975 novel, Agatha wrote: 'Crippled with arthritis.
United States: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1927, copyright 1955, pubdate 1972. By the final novel, Poirot is already older and weaker, but pretends to use a wheelchair to trick people into thinking he was more infirm.
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