I liked how Poirot worked the physiological aspect of these murders.
Murders is a brilliant mystery which, in my view, is on par with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Murders made me realize my view of Poirot still hasn’t changed – he is uppity as ever! However, that annoyance aside, The A.B.C. Baffled by this crime, the police hopes this murder is an isolated incident – better yet a coincidence! But when Poirot receives another letter, it becomes clear as daylight that there’s a serial killer on a rampage, who is working his way through the alphabet! But of course, Poirot’s instincts are proven correct when an old lady by the name of Alice Ascher is found dead in Andover on the same night, with an A.B.C. The tone of the letter does not sit well with Poirot who wants to take it seriously when Inspector Japp suggests otherwise. This letter, typewritten on fancy stationery and signed ABC, warns Poirot of a crime that is going to happen in Andover on 21st of June and taunts Poirot to catch the criminal. However, it looks like Poirot will have to come out of retirement once again when a mysterious letter arrives at his London apartment. The year is 1935, and Captain Hastings who usually chronicles Poirot’s escapades is in London for six months away from his wife and ranch in South America (I will have to read Book #7-#12 to find out how Hastings got hitched! I wonder if they met during a case like Dr Watson and Mary in Sherlock Holmes…) Poirot has retired for the umpteenth time to grow vegetable marrows. Murders is the thirteenth book in the Poirot series.
So this time around, I didn’t want to repeat my mistake! When And Then There Were None miniseries came in, I made the mistake of watching it before reading the novel – I loved the miniseries so much so that I still haven’t been able to get its ending out of my head to read the mystery. Murders TV adaptation on Amazon, I wanted to read the novel before watching it. Most of the rest were good 3-star mysteries too, but I never warmed up to Poirot, so when I started to follow the British Library Crime Classics series, this just took a back seat.īut now with The A.B.C. Back in 2017, I read the first six books in the Hercule Poirot series and really liked The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It has been a while since I last read a novel by Agatha Christie.
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