Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) by Agatha Christie (1923)

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:45:00 +0000

Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) by Agatha Christie (1923)

Author: Agatha Christie
First Published: May 1923
Series: Hercule Poirot Book 2
Score: 5/10

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When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire’s wife is found bound and gagged in her room. Her wrists are badly cut and she seems to be in shock, but she agrees to speak to Poirot. She tells him that they were attacked by thugs who tied her up and forced her husband to leave the house, dressed only in his underwear, before brutally killing him. Poirot is not sure whether to believe her story. Did she, as the sole beneficiary of her millionaire husband’s estate, set the whole thing up? And if not, who did kill M. Renauld? The suspects include the mysterious Dulcie Duveen and Renauld’s son Jack, who had quarreled violently with his father. As Poirot investigates, the mystery begins to unfold—but not before another murder occurs. . . John Moffatt stars as Poirot, with Jeremy Clyde as Captain Hastings, Madeline Smith as Dulcie Duveen, and Stephen Tompkinson as Jack.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie (1920)

Sun, 15 Dec 2013 23:50:00 +0000

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie (1920)

Author: Agatha Christie
First Published: October 1920
Series: Hercule Poirot Book 1
Score: 5/10

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Agatha Christie’s debut novel was the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective.

A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village.

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Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) by Agatha Christie (1923)

Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) by Agatha Christie (1923)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie (1920)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) by Agatha Christie (1920)