The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie

It may be said that "The ABC Murders" was Christie's answer to any accusations that much of Poirot's cases were too simplistic, too orderly, too contained. They took place in houses, on boats or on trains, the murderer could only be one of a selected number of people, all known in some capacity to the deceased. Thus, it was possible for the Belgian detective to employ his policies of order and method thirty six times at least, to calmly question the small group set before him and quietly come to the satisfactory conclusion. How, therefore, might be cope if the net was to be cast further afield, if the killings appeared to be entirely random and with no ...  Read the complete review

The ABC murders is possibly one of Agatha Christie' s cleverest and most intricate novels yet. when the book starts there is a serial killer loose, one who is working his or her way through the alphabet by selecting his victims based on theirs and their towns name, and after each crime leaving an ABC railway guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place, beggining in Andover. The whole country is on tenter hooks and it seems the only person who could stop him is Hercule Poirot- but will even he make it in time? The reader follows two accounts that of Poirot and his faithful sidekick captain hastings and that of the mysterious Mr ALexander ...  Read the complete review