Published in 1946, The Hollow is one of Agatha Christie’s novels featuring her celebrated detective, Hercule Poirot. Interestingly, Christie herself was dissatisfied with the Belgian detective’s presence in this work, later noting in her autobiography that she had “ruined” the novel by introducing Poirot.

The weekend gathering of the residents and guests at the Angkatells’ country estate, The Hollow, is disrupted by a murder, and Hercule Poirot arrives at the scene just minutes after the fatal shooting...