An unpublished Agatha Christie short story, The Capture of Cerberus, will appear in print for the first time today, the CBC CA reported.

The Daily Mail newspaper in Britain acquired the rights to publish the story and will begin serializing it in today’s edition. Written just before the Second World War, the short story features the British crime writer’s dearly loved sleuth Hercule Poirot and marks his first new adventure in 34 years.

Set in Geneva, the story revolves around a Nazi dictator. Unusual for a Christie story, it has a noticeably political tone and may have been considered too sensitive to release as part of a collection of stories that appeared in 1940, the Daily Mail noted on Thursday.

British author and long-time Christie aficionado John Curran put together The Capture of Cerberus from Christie’s outline, notes and draft copies he discovered after he was invited to examine the late writer’s papers stored at her summer home in Devon. He spent four years on the project. He also found another unpublished Christie story, The Mystery of the Dog’s Ball, in the attic of the house. Both stories are included in Curran’s book, Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks – Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, which will be published by HarperCollins on 3 September.

In his book, Curran said he instantly realized the implications of finding the drafts and notes on The Capture of Cerberus. “I realized I was looking at something unimaginably unique — an unknown Poirot short story, one that had lain silently between its covers for over 60 years,” he wrote.

The short story published today is a completely different tale than a Christie short story with the same title that was published in 1947.