Solved: Cryptic note reveals fate of Agatha Christie whodunnit after 70 years

A Fife library has solved the mystery of a missing Agatha Christie book nearly 70 years after it vanished.

The 1953 Hercule Poirot thriller After the Funeral was borrowed from Kirkcaldy Library in Fife in the 1950s and never returned.

Staff have now received a replacement copy of the missing novel in the post along with a cryptic note.

The precise whereabouts of the original Agatha Christie detective book remains a mystery, however, and staff are still no clearer whodunnit.