Underplayed Gems

Wasp's Nest (1937)

Wasp's Nest poster
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United Kingdom
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A man seeks help from detective Hercule Poirot about a tense love triangle. Poirot discovers a murder plot involving wasps and a cyanide spray.

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What happens

Wasp's Nest was a television play broadcast on the BBC Television Service on 18 June 1937. It was adapted from the short story of the same name by crime writer Agatha Christie which had first appeared in the Daily Mail on 20 November 1928 and first appeared in book form in the US collection Double Sin and Other Stories in 1961. It first appeared in a UK collection in Poirot's Early Cases in 1974. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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