Christie, Agatha -- While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)

Blurb:  The House of Dreams is the first story Agatha Christie ever wrote and recounts the effects of a macabre recurring dream on a man’s life.  The Actress tells of a woman who turns the tables on her blackmailer.  The Edge is a gripping tale of jealousy and infidelity, and in Christmas Adventure Poirot is caught up in some unseasonal mayhem.  The Lonely God is an unlikely love story about two lost souls who meet in the British Museum, while in Manx Gold two young heroes race against time to discover buried treasure.  Within a Wall tells of a tragic love triangle between a portrait painter, his wife and his daughter’s godmother, and after The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest, another early Poirot story which Christie would later rework, the book concludes with While the Light Lasts, where a Rhodesian tobacco plantation is the setting for an unexpected visitor from beyond the grave…