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. It is one of several of Christie's crime fiction novels to feature both the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Chief Inspector Japp. This is Japp's final novel appearance. The book's UK title is derived from a well-known children's nursery rhyme of the same name, and the chapters each correspond to a line of that rhyme. This is the first of the Poirot novels to reflect the pervasive gloom of the Second World War and is one of Christie's most overtly political novels. Miss Mabelle Sainsbury Seale, who lived abroad for many years, has come back to London and spots her old friend’s husband. He does not recognise her, thinking that she has mistaken him another man. A woman’s body is found inside a fur chest in her flat – her face dismembered. She wears a green dress, a pair of cheap stockings and the buckle on one of her black patent leather shoes. She is Sylvia Chapman according to her dental record and the flat belongs to her. Nonetheless, the porter identifies her as Miss Sainsbury Seale, who visited the other woman a month ago. One morning, outside Mr Morley’s practice Poirot stands and a black cab pulls over. You can listen online to free English audiobook “One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” by Agatha Christie on our website.
