I think it is Agatha Christie's only novel with a plot about a serial killer.Poirot with his black hair dye, Hastings with his comb-over Poirot and Hastings trying to prevent aging.Is he getting past it? Is Agatha Christie ageing him in 'real time'? How old is Poirot at this stage - Let's say he was about 60 when he arrived as a Belgian refugee during World War 1.this novel was originally published in 1936, but the setting is only a year before?.The disclosure right at the beginning by Captain Hastings that he has departed from his usual practice of using only his own account, and has included third person accounts by someone else.Here are some of the things we are going to talk about - please leave a comment if you'd like to contribute to our discussion

(I actually started off using a printed copy, and then thought this note-making ability would be very useful). Once again I have used the note-making facility on my Kindle to make a big list of the things that I want to talk about. Once again this is a novel I am reading with my U3A Agatha Christie Reading Group, and it is a re-read for me. With each murder, the killer is getting more confident-but leaving a trail of deliberate clues to taunt the proud Hercule Poirot might just prove to be the first, and fatal, mistake. Ascher in Andover, B is for Betty Barnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston. There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic.Ī is for Mrs. 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…

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. There’s a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. this cover shows Jon Malkovitch as PoirotĪgatha Christie’s world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 042513024X.Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins Masterpiece Ed edition (October 14, 2010).This edition made available on Amazon ( Kindle)

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