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The Adventure of the Clapham Cook is a short story by Agatha Christie featuring the celebrated detective Hercule Poirot, first published in 1924 in The Sketch, later collected in the U.S. in The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951) and in the U.K. in Poirot’s Early Cases (1974).

The mystery begins when a London householder asks the famed detective to trace her missing cook. What sounds like kitchen-table gossip becomes a seemingly trivial disappearance that demands serious attention, drawing him into a puzzle built from overlooked, everyday details.

As he follows the smallest clues he links the woman’s vanishing to an absconding bank clerk and stolen securities. The domestic nuisance expands into a carefully engineered scheme, proving how ordinary routines can conceal larger crimes.

Christie delivers a brisk, witty case that showcases the power of method and the “little gray cells”, reminding readers that no case is too small to reveal big truths in the Golden Age tradition.

"At the time that I was sharing rooms with my friend Hercule Poirot, it was my custom to read aloud to him the headlines in the morning newspaper, the Daily Blare.
The Daily Blare was a paper that made the most of any opportunity for sensationalism. Robberies and murders did not lurk obscurely in its back pages. Instead they hit you in the eye in large type on the front page. "