The ABC Murders
Ratings93
Average rating3.9
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Ratings93
Average rating3.9
***There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And*** as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, ***there seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot*** to frustrate his plans.**--goodreads**
***The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp,*** as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as "A.B.C.". The book was **first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club** on 6 January 1936, sold for seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while a US edition, **published by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year**, was priced $2.00.
**The form of the novel is unusual, combining first-person narrative and third-person narrative.** This approach was previously used by Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit. In The A.B.C. Murders the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator of the story, Arthur Hastings.
**The novel was well received in the UK and the US when it was published.** One reviewer said it was "a baffler of the first water," while another remarked on Christie's ingenuity in the plot] **A reviewer in 1990 said it was "a classic, still fresh story, beautifully worked out."*--Wikipedia***
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44 primary books64 released booksHercule Poirot is a 57-book series with 44 primary works first released in 197 with contributions by Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie, and 5 others.
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Un roman classique d'Agatha Christie avec son célèbre détective belge Hercule Poirot. Ce n'est pas mon roman préféré de la Reine du Crime, mais il se laisse lire.
Probably more like 3.5 stars. I love Poirot and the result is clever. I kinda saw it coming, but the novel is decades old and I'm sure more than 1 novel has borrowed from this one. There were a ton of characters, which is a thing she does I think, but I didn't love it this time.
This was really fun, and for once I figured out a tiny bit of a Christie mystery before the very end. But just a tiny bit - I was still on the edge of my seat until Poirot explained everything!
The nice thing is you can just enjoy reading the story, meeting the characters, and laughing at the friendly barbs between Hastings and Poirot, and not worry about trying to puzzle out the mystery, and it's still a great read.
