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Das Geheimnis der Schnallenschuhe (Scherz Verlag translation)

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Geheimnis der Schnallenschuhe, Das
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Novel
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German
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. A paperback edition in the US by Dell books in 1953 changed the title again to An Overdose of Death. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while the United States edition retailed at $2.00.

The novel features both the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Chief Inspector Japp. This is Japp's final novel appearance. The plot of the novel concerns Poirot investigating the death of his dentist and other people.

At the time of publication, the novel was met with mixed reviews, as "compactly simple in narrative, with a swift course of unflagging suspense that leads to complete surprise." A later review by Robert Barnard in 1990 found "a fairly conventional murder mystery, beguilingly and cunningly sustained." while Christie has included characters of the politically unstable war time in which it was written, "political 'idealists', fascist movements and conservative financiers who maintain world stability."

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Translation copyrights: Scherz Verlag
First published in Germany: 1951

Last modified: 2025-03-12 (revision #226319)

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Das Geheimnis der SchnallenschuhePaperback3-502-50239-01985
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189406
Wikidata Work ID
Q465649

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