June 8, 2009 - 21:53 AMT
Two unpublished Poirot short stories found in Agatha Christie's holiday home
Two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot stories have emerged from a mass of family papers at Agatha Christie's favorite home.

Both unpublished works, The Mystery of the Dog's Ball and The Capture of Cerberus, are short stories, the form in which the author often worked out details of characters and plots, before rethreading them as full-length novels.

They will appear in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, to be published by HarperCollins in September, The Guardian reported.