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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Plenty of dramatic action, tangled clues, and a fresh new adversity for Poirot and his little gray cells! I like the splashiness of this case, the fact that it’s one taking place in the public eye and not behind closed doors. Those ones are also immensely fun, but seeing Poirot work this one out was a particularly nice treat to read. ( ) I can't recall the Suchet version of this story but had recently seen the BBC adaptation last Christmas - very dark and not at all the classic Poirot as portrayed by David Suchet. Anyway, having read the book I could see the vast liberties taken by the latest adaptation and much prefer the original text. In this Poirot is semi-retired but is still handling high profile cases. Hastings, married now and living in South America, has returned to England for a long holiday and is staying with his old friend when the first in a series of anonymous letters arrive: letters which taunt Poirot with the news that the writer will commit a murder in a particular town on a particular date. The letters are signed A B C. Although he takes the first to the police and is disturbed by it, they believe it is one of the enormous number of hoaxes and crank letters which they receive on a daily basis, until someone is in fact found murdered on the day in question, with an A B C Railway guide positioned near the body. And this is just the first. As well as the humour shown in Poirot's relationship with Hastings - who narrates the story - I liked the fact that the police are not numbskulls in this and they do not sideline Poirot let alone treat him with the disrespect shown in the latest TV adaptation. And, as I guessed, the sordid aspects of the TV version were entirely made up. Instead we have Poirot still at the height of his powers slowly gathering together the snippets of facts that he needs which eventually point their way to the real culprit. Unlike 'Cat Among the Pigeons' which I read a while ago, here he is foregrounded and we see an insight into his methods, which even include an amusing scene of the misdirection he creates in a greengrocer's shop in order to ellicit the truth. I thoroughly enjoyed this tale and am therefore awarding it 5 stars. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesHercule Poirot (11) Belongs to Publisher SeriesThe Albatross Crime Club (No. 159) I classici del giallo [Mondadori] (476, 665) Collins Crime Club (White Circle No. 63) — 8 more Delfinserien (292) Penguin Books (683) Pocket Books (88) SaPo (334) Scherz Krimi (750) Selecciones de Biblioteca Oro (libro 144) Vampiro (167) Is contained inDeath on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / The A.B.C. Murders / Cards on the Table / Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The A.B.C. Murders, The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side, They Came To Baghdad by Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Peril at End House / The A.B.C. Murders / One, Two Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie The A.B.C. Murders / The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side / Cat Among the Pigeons / The Clocks by Agatha Christie Seven Deadly Sins: The ABC Murders / A Murder Is Announced / Sparkling Cyanide / Evil Under the Sun / At Bertram's Hotel / Endess Night / Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Murder on the Orient Express / The A.B.C. Murders / Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie The Perils of Poirot: The A.B.C. Murders / Murder on the Links / Peril at End House / Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie Murder in Three Acts / Death in the Clouds / The A.B.C. Murders / Murder in Mesopotamia / Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; The A.B.C. Murders ; The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side ; The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie Has the adaptationIs abridged inHas as a student's study guide
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HTML: There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught â?? until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans ... No library descriptions found. |
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