{"id":2363,"date":"2026-01-03T22:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/hercule-poirot-and-the-greenshore-folly-christie-agatha\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:25:26","slug":"hercule-poirot-and-the-greenshore-folly-christie-agatha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/hercule-poirot-and-the-greenshore-folly-christie-agatha\/","title":{"rendered":"Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly – Christie, Agatha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although it was published in November 1956, the Hercule Poirot novel Dead Man\u2019s Folly<\/em> had a complicated two-year genesis. In November 1954 Agatha Christie\u2019s agent Hughes Massie wrote to the Diocesan Board of Finance in Exeter explaining that his client would like to see stained glass windows in the chancel of Churston Ferrers Church (Christie\u2019s local church) and was willing to pay for them by assigning the rights of a story to a fund set up for that purpose. The Diocesan Board and the local church were both very happy with the arrangement and in a letter of 3 December 1954 Hughes Massie confirmed \u2018Mrs Mallowan\u2019s intentions to assign the magazine rights of a long short story to be entitled The Greenshore Folly<\/em>\u2019 to such a fund. The amount involved was reckoned to be in the region of \u00a31,000 (\u00a318,000 in today\u2019s value).<\/p>\n

By March 1955 the Diocesan Board was getting restive and wondering about the progress of the sale. But for the first time in 35 years, much to everyone\u2019s embarrassment, it proved impossible to sell the story. The problem was its length; it was a long novella, which was a difficult length, neither a novel nor a short story, for the magazine market. By mid-July 1955, the decision was made to withdraw the story from sale, as \u2018Agatha thinks [it] is packed with good material which she can use for her next full length novel\u2019. As a compromise, it was agreed that she would write another short story for the Church, also to be called, for legal reasons, \u2018The Greenshore Folly\u2019, \u2018though it will probably be published under some other title\u2019. So, the original and rejected novella \u2018The Greenshore Folly\u2019 was elaborated into the novel Dead Man\u2019s Folly<\/em> and Christie wrote the shorter and similarly titled Miss Marple story \u2018Greenshaw\u2019s Folly\u2019 to swell the coffers of the Church authorities. \u2018Greenshaw\u2019s Folly\u2019 was first published in 1956 and was collected in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding<\/em> in 1960.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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