The Perils of Poirot: The A.B.C. Murders / Murder on the Links / Peril at End House / Cat Among the Pigeons
by Agatha Christie
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A collection of Hercule Poirot Novels, consisting of The A.B.C. Murders, The Murder on the Links, Peril at End House & Cat Among the Pigeons. This volume compiled by the Mystery Guild, Garden City, New York.Tags
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In this collection of four Hercule Poirot mysteries, the reader can trace the development of Agatha Christie's skills as a writer. Murder on the Links is one of Christie's earliest novels and dates from the early 1920s. Peril at End House and The A.B.C. Murders were both published in the 1930s. Cat Among the Pigeons was published much later, in the late 1950s. The A.B.C. Murders is my favorite of the four novels because of the novelty of the series of crimes. The murderer devised a clever plan to outwit the authorities, but it wasn't clever enough to fool Hercule Poirot.
All four of these novels are now available as made-for-TV movies with David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. I recommend reading the books before watching the TV movies. In show more some cases, the novels have been adapted quite a bit for television. show less
All four of these novels are now available as made-for-TV movies with David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. I recommend reading the books before watching the TV movies. In show more some cases, the novels have been adapted quite a bit for television. show less
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One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. In her lifetime, she authored 79 crime novels and a short story collection, 19 show more plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language with another billion in 44 foreign languages. Some of her most famous titles include Murder on the Orient Express, Mystery of the Blue Train, And Then There Were None, 13 at Dinner and The Sittaford Mystery. Noted for clever and surprising twists of plot, many of Christie's mysteries feature two unconventional fictional detectives named Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot, in particular, plays the hero of many of her works, including the classic, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and Curtain (1975), one of her last works in which the famed detective dies. Over the years, her travels took her to the Middle East where she met noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They married in 1930. Christie accompanied Mallowan on annual expeditions to Iraq and Syria, which served as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937), and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's credits also include the plays, The Mousetrap and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957). Christie received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for 1954-1955 for Witness. She was also named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971. Christie died in 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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