The Secret Adversary Playbook 3 — The Vigil A Playbook Series Adaptation Last Verified: 2026-09-15 | Adapted by: Kateule Sydney | Published by: E-cyclopedia Resources Hub Summary: Mrs. Vandemeyer is dead — and Sir James Peel Edgerton does not believe she died of natural causes. In the flat where she was about to betray Mr. Brown, three people keep watch through the night, and one of them is not what they seem. Meanwhile, in a shuttered room across London, Tommy Beresford bargains for his life with the men who intend to kill him. By morning, a fragment of memory will surface in Tuppence's mind — a fragment that may destroy everything she thinks she knows. And a telegram she has been waiting for will finally arrive. Series Plan: Source work: The Secret Adversary (1922) by Agatha Christie Public domain status: Confirmed public domain in the United States. Christie died 1976; the work entered the US public domain in 1998. Estimated source w...
POIROT INVESTIGATES: Playbook 1 · The Adventure of "The Western Star" & The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
Poirot Investigates Playbook 1 — The Western Star and the Marsdon Manor Tragedy A Playbook Series Adaptation Last Verified: 2026-09-16 | Adapted by: Kateule Sydney | Published by: E-cyclopedia Resources Hub Summary: Two cases, one principle. In the first, a film star's diamond vanishes and a country-house robbery turns out to be something far stranger. In the second, a sudden death at an Essex manor is put down to internal haemorrhage — until Poirot notices that the local doctor's account of the dead man's temperament does not quite fit the widow's. Both cases turn on the same insight: the simplest explanation is rarely the obvious one. And in both, Hastings mistakes a surface reading for detection. Series Plan: Source work: Poirot Investigates (1924) by Agatha Christie Public domain status: Confirmed public domain in the United States. Published 1924; U.S. copyright expired. Estimated source word count: Approximately 68,000 words across ...