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Third Girl (Hercule Poirot #35)

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A desperate woman seeks the aid of Hercule Poirot in a matter of life and death. A near-lethal dose of poison, a blood-stained knife, a revolver, and a family who aren't what they seem all figure in an extraordinary case that takes the celebrated Belgian detective from a village estate to the bohemian streets of London.

Paperback, 365 pages

Published 2002 by HarperCollins (first published 1966)

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Jun 10, 2012 mark monday rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: choose-ur-adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure!

You are an apartment in London. It is the Swingin’ 60s, man, and everything is new and shiny and groovy and covered with flowers. Psychiatry: what a mind trip, it’s crazy! Drugs: they’re everywhere – and sometimes not so groovy! You have room for three girls, you spacious bohemian pad you... but three girls in swingin’ London can sometimes equal trouble: Murder Trouble! Whatever is a hepcat apartment to do? Time to bring in an old-school private detective and his square...more

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Aug 22, 2007 Sam rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Agatha Christie fans

Shelves: fiction

Well, as my first Agatha Christie book in about 20 years, i'm told this was a bad choice. Christie wrote it later in her life, and in a bid to maintain some relevance with the younger people, wrote in a lot of jargon about drugs and young people and their strange ways. The jargon and stereotypes didn't bother me so much - they were quaint and at times humorous, but forgivable in most circumstances. What was bothersome about the book was that it had some difficulty in getting started, and when it...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Peter rated it 3 of 5 stars

"Like most Agatha Christie mysterys, I've read this a number of times. They are old friends of which I never tire. I recently saw the BBC/David Suchet adaptation, which was noticebly (but not maddeningly) different, so I dusted off the cover again.

This has never been one of my favorites, but what is fun is Christie uses the swinging 60s setting to her advantage (It was written in 1966) Ariadne Oliver is always fun, and she has perhaps her brightest moments in this novel. Poirot is the main detec...more

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Aug 06, 2010 Laurel rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-year-of-agatha

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I've read Third Girl before; in fact, I have a fantastic 1960s edition with a drawing of a peacock on the cover. However, I decided to re-read and review it after seeing the new tv version on Mystery, because, as a Dame Agatha loyalist, I really must object! I usually love this series because it has David Suchet as Poirot; he is as definitive to me as is Joan Hickson as my one-and-only Miss Marple.

However, for this newest season of Poirot...more (Note: spoilers for both the book and the new tv version)

I've read Third Girl before; in fact, I have a fantastic 1960s edition with a drawing of a peacock on the cover. However, I decided to re-read and review it after seeing the new tv version on Mystery, because, as a Dame Agatha loyalist, I really must object! I usually love this series because it has David Suchet as Poirot; he is as definitive to me as is Joan Hickson as my one-and-only Miss Marple.

However, for this newest season of Poirot, they've made two big changes to the originals--they've made them "darker" (gorier and a very serious tone), and they've moved them all to the 1930s. The new version of my favorite, Murder on the Orient Express, can be forgiven for its dark tone because I think they wanted to do something different from the light, almost comedic tone of the ending to the famous all-star film version. However, now they've thrown a gory death into Third Girl that never existed in the first place: Norma's mother died of natural causes when Norma was already an adult. She did not commit suicide in Norma's childhood, let alone do so in a scene straight out of a horror movie. I almost screamed out loud, it was so revolting. Christie was famously "cozy" in her mysteries and never gory; in fact, she responded to a request for more blood by writing Poirot's Christmas, where the blood turns out to be fake!

And then there's the change in time period, taking Third Girl from the 1960s back to the 1930s. I do understand that the reader has to suspend an awful lot of disbelief in the novels for Poirot to remain roughly the same age as long as he does, and that they wanted the series to be cohesive. However, in that case they simply shouldn't have filmed Third Girl, which is absolutely dependent on its setting for effect. Changing the time period meant they had to change the entire ending to something really stupid and unrelated to the book, since the drug culture famously associated with the 1960s (LSD, etc) did not exist in the '30s. The entire POINT of this novel was for Christie to use '60s drug culture as a new idea for a mystery--a modish London girl, living with roommates in a flat, victimized by being given a cocktail of drugs and then framed for murder.

The details they do keep from the book, such as Mrs. Oliver's nickname for David--"the Peacock"--cease to make sense in the film. I've always assumed that the nickname is a nice reference to the so-called Peacock Revolution in men's fashion in the 1960s, in which David takes part (to his elders' bewilderment!). Mrs. Oliver, as Christie's literary avatar of herself, remarks that she likes to keep up with the times for her novels. Ditto for Dame Agatha. It does her a terrible disservice to eliminate the setting into which she put so much effort, right down to the "modern" wood-grained wallpaper in Norma's flat.

For the period detail really is the best thing about Third Girl. The novel is rather repetitive and not one of her very best, although there are some clever elements that are vintage Christie (such as the numbers on the apartment doors...). I also found the ending to be disappointing: Norma is an heiress and, once off drugs, perfectly healthy. There is no reason why she couldn't live a fabulous independent life as a single girl in London in the Swinging Sixties. That ending would fit perfectly. Instead, Christie marries her off to a man she barely knows, although admittedly Dr. Stillingfleet is a memorable character whom I like. A psychiatrist cannot marry his patient and keep his license to practice, or at least not now; I don't know about 50 years ago. However, Christie dodges the issue by making him state repeatedly that Norma is not officially his patient and he is just being a friend to her--and that she will "run" him instead of vice versa when they marry. Still, it comes across as Christie wanting a happy ending but not knowing how to create one that is as modern as her setting, and falling back on the classic Poirot-as-matchmaker of earlier works.

Overall, maybe not her very best book but still quite good in places and much better than the film!(less)

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Jul 19, 2010 Nancy Oakes rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: uk-crime-fiction-and-mystery, translated-to-film

Hercule Poirot is now in his 35th adventure; after this one, he has only three more contemporary appearances -- in Hallow'een Party, Elephants Can Remember, and Curtain.

Third Girl is set smack in the mid-sixties. It's a time when men are wearing such clothes as "elaborate velvet waistcoat[s:], skin-tight pants," and wearing their hair long in "rich curls of chestnut," while women were wearing

"the clothes of their generation: black high leather boots, white open-work stockings of doubtful cleanl...more Hercule Poirot is now in his 35th adventure; after this one, he has only three more contemporary appearances -- in Hallow'een Party, Elephants Can Remember, and Curtain.

Third Girl is set smack in the mid-sixties. It's a time when men are wearing such clothes as "elaborate velvet waistcoat[s:], skin-tight pants," and wearing their hair long in "rich curls of chestnut," while women were wearing

"the clothes of their generation: black high leather boots, white open-work stockings of doubtful cleanliness, a skimpy skirt and a long and sloppy pullover of heavy wool".

The Beatles proclaim in 1966 that they're more popular than Jesus. The younger generation is experimenting with drugs and getting high. Girls aren't staying at home much after leaving school, going off to the cities to find jobs and live in apartments, often doubling up or adding a "third" girl to help with the rent. It is just such a "third girl," Norma Restarick, who early one morning finds herself with Hercule Poirot, to tell him that she might have committed a murder, but then proclaims Poirot too old, and disappears. He's obviously intrigued, and finds out the girl's identity only when Ariadne Oliver, the mystery novelist, begins discussing a party she'd been to earlier where she'd met this young woman. From that point, the two begin investigating Norma's past and present, trying to discover if she's unbalanced, or if there's someone that might mean her harm. Poirot looks for patterns & death, and Ariadne tries methods that her detective, Sven Hjerson, might use in her popular mystery books.

As usual, there are plenty of suspects and red herrings throughout the novel, and this time Christie puts a secret up her sleeve that she doesn't reveal until the end -- a bit of duplicity on her part which wasn't really fair, but worked. I thought the final solution was well done and although the clues were there all along, I still managed to be surprised by the ending, which a) I felt was quite satisfying and b) I should have figured out after the breadcrumb trail of clues Christie left behind. And while the story may seem a bit muddled from time to time, it's still well worth the read.

Poirot, without a doubt, is one of my favorite detectives ever, with his fastidious mannerisms and personality. Even toward the end of his career his little grey cells are as busy and sharp as ever; Miss Lemon, the secretary par excellence, makes an appearance, always a step ahead of Poirot, and then there's Ariadne Oliver, a rather unique character, often living off of her intuition or using her mystery novelist skills to offer help in Poirot's investigation. While she does provide some comic relief and comes off as a bit of a bumbler from time to time, she actually manages to also provide a few valuable clues to Poirot from time to time.
At first I was a bit unsure as to whether or not I would enjoy this novel, but it ended up being a treat. This must be one that either I read eons ago and have totally forgotten, or that somehow I managed to miss until now. I can recommend it, definitely, BUT ... if you're looking for the recently televised Third Girl, you'll find that there's quite a difference between page and screen.(less)

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Dec 31, 2009 John rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've never been much of a fan of Agatha Christie's work; this means that, unlike the case with most of her mystery-writing contemporaries, there are still quite a few of her books I haven't read. So, every once in a while, I treat myself to what would be a trip down Memory Lane were it not for the fact that, never having read the novel before, I don't have the memory in the first place.

Third Girl is one of the later Poirot novels; as soon as I spotted the copyright date I knew not to expect too...more
I've never been much of a fan of Agatha Christie's work; this means that, unlike the case with most of her mystery-writing contemporaries, there are still quite a few of her books I haven't read. So, every once in a while, I treat myself to what would be a trip down Memory Lane were it not for the fact that, never having read the novel before, I don't have the memory in the first place.

Third Girl is one of the later Poirot novels; as soon as I spotted the copyright date I knew not to expect too much, in that by this stage Christie was not as fully in command of all things as once she might have been (note my polished tact), and it seems that no one at Collins, her longstanding publisher, quite had the courage to tell her so. In fact, I noted only a single out-and-out plot howler (in one chapter Poirot recalls doing something that the preceding chapter's description tells us quite explicitly he did not do) and it doesn't impact anything else in the plot so doesn't matter. I think it was in At Bertram's Hotel, another late-order Christie novel, that one of these little forgetful glitches made the triumphantly revealed solution to the mystery in fact impossible. Third Girl, mercifully, doesn't suffer that problem; what it does suffer is a solution that depends on such a staggering implausibility as to leave one dumbstruck. No one expects Golden Age mysteries to bear more than a passing resemblance to real life; but at the same time you don't expect to be asked to accept something that quite simply couldn't happen in the world. In this instance, the artifice is that a young woman -- the "third girl" of the title -- has not noticed over a period of months that one of her two flatmates, both of them supposedly about her own age, is actually her hated stepmother with a wig on.

Some of the events along the path that leads to this calamitous revelation are entertaining in a slight way, so the couple of days I spent with the book weren't entirely wasted. Hm. I'm probably just saying that because this is supposed to be the season of good will . . .

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Feb 09, 2013 Jason Alexander rated it 3 of 5 stars

Agatha Christie mystery novel - pretty much says it all. She is the master of the enjoyable, somehow light-hearted, murder mystery.

This particular Poirot tale is a bit muddled with far too much information to allow you to figure out exactly what has happened, who is involved, and how they managed it, but true to her ways she gives you clues all along the way, it just requires exceptional grey cells, as it were. I will go ahead and declare that I had one or two elements of the mystery figured ou...more

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Apr 18, 2011 Bev Hankins rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vintage-mystery

The third girl, Norma Restarick, drops in on Hercule Poirot one morning as he's finishing his breakfast chocolate. Like those of her generation, she's got a tousled, unkempt appearance, but added to that is a perplexed stare. She greets Poirot with the news that she thinks she may have committed a murder. But then, having giving his appearance due consideration, she decides that he is "too old" to help her and diesappears. Poirot's friend Mrs. Ariadne Oliver is able to help him track the girl do...more

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Apr 06, 2011 ibnumarogi rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: pinjam, fiksi-terjemahan

Ini buku pertama saya tentang detektif Hercule Poirot. Di buku ini Agatha Christie sangat kentara membangun pola misteri khasnya: psikologis (asumsi saya saja). Entah latar belakang akademisnya apa--dokter bukan, sih?--tetapi dia memang pintar dalam aspek psikologi orang.

Sebetulnya agak ragu juga untuk menyukai novel ini (bayangkan, sedari awal hingga halaman 297 saya tak menemukan pembunuhan yang dilakukan! Betapa membosankan). Namun, ketika mendapati fakta yang terkuak di akhir cerita membikin...more

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Aug 22, 2010 jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars

It's the mid-sixties and girls have become so independent these days. Young Norma has a flashy boyfriend her father and stepmother don't approve of, but as Norma is rarely under their roof, there isn't a lot they can do about it. Norma has moved into a London flat with two other girls, oh, and she has bouts of forgetfulness where she ends up in possession of a weapon of some kind or other and can't recall what has occurred. Must be all those drugs.

Christie has created a complex mystery here for...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Anjalika Sharma rated it 3 of 5 stars

I had heard that the books which Agatha had written in her later life were not very good and I agree to that.Though she is my favourite author,I have to admit that I didn't like this book very much.Though the ending was totally a perfect Agatha Christie ending where something very unexpected happens, the middle part was not that good.The whole time I felt that I was reading someone else's writing not Agatha's as it didn't create the excitement in me which gets created when I read An Agatha chris...more

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Feb 01, 2009 Carrie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of those novels where Christie tries to show us that she is hip to the ways of the swinging sixties, and as such it falls pretty flat. A young girl comes to see Poirot, saying that she thinks she may have committed a murder - only to leave when she decides he is “too old.” Poirot, his dander up, decides to find her, which he does through Mrs. Oliver. With her help he decides to also figure out what she was talking about, a hunt that leads to a pretty terrible crime committed by prett...more

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Jan 21, 2010 April Helms rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: classic, mystery

"Third Girl" has a different feel from the other Agatha Christie novels I've read. For starters, this is set in the 1960s. This mystery is easily the funniest I've read. Hercule Poirot gets a visit from a young lady who says she think's she's murdered someone, but can't remember who, when or where. She departs abruptly, leaving Poirot to figure out the puzzle. Ariadne Oliver, a mystery novel author, joins him in tracking down the girl and her identity. Those two are a pair and the ending left me...more

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May 10, 2012 Heidi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult, mystery

I had seen the movie a couple of years ago, so when a few clues started to develop, I remembered quite a bit about the ending, but not the entire ending. But even knowing as much, it was interesting to see it developed in the book as opposed to the movie, even though most of those productions that I watched at that time followed the books very closely. There's still something to be said for the books. Goes to prove a point I once tried to make--there's no such thing as spoiling a good book by te...more

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Aug 12, 2010 Meave rated it 3 of 5 stars

A little too hip, but she does try. The plot's not new, and goodness knows hemp has no psychotropic qualities, and whenever David showed up I kept imagining Russell Brand--but that bit was funny, so, OK.

I mean it's not bad, just too loose. She realizes it, though, poor old Aggie, and does try to tie it all up very tightly by the end. It just wasn't enough. It's the lack of embarrassing British racism that bumps it from two stars to three. Maybe her Alzheimer's destroyed the racist parts of her b...more

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Aug 07, 2009 Mazel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: policier

Cette fois-ci, après un épuisant effort intellectuel, la rédaction de son " œuvre maîtresse ", un essai sur les maîtres du roman policier, Hercule Poirot est bien décidé à jouir d'un repos mérité...

N'a-t-il pas plus d'une fois prouvé qu'il était le roi des détectives, l'infaillible dont la réputation n'est plus à faire ?

Impossible de mettre en doute ses capacités...

Et pourtant, voilà qu'une jeune femme vient lui déclarer qu'il est trop vieux pour l'aider ! Alors qu'elle-même est venue le cons...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Grace rated it 2 of 5 stars

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May 15, 2012 Hannah rated it 4 of 5 stars

this book adresses the fact it is about a girl who has gone crazy and has doubt in her self. Its in London the main chacters are Moniser Poiret, Norma, Mrs. Oliver, And the Restrark family. Monsier Poiret is the protaginist. Norma is the Antaginoist and Mrs. Oliver is the foil. She foils poiret.
"I-I dont remember what has happened but i think i have killed someone." I like this quote because it is supernatural and it something i would say.
The theme is the book: Never try to hard to cover thi...more

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Mar 18, 2012 Olive rated it 2 of 5 stars

Unfortunately this is not Christies finest moment. The backdrop to the book is swinging 1960s London, a world that Christie seems uncomfortable writing about and one which our beloved M. Hercule Poirot seems equally uncomfortable living in. The plot is thin compared to some of Christies finest works, I found it a struggle at times to continue reading as many of the characters were uninteresting and one dimensional. Also Poirot, who I usually love for his eccentric, exact and funny ways comes acr...more

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Aug 09, 2012 Ana Luisa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Desde muito nova comecei a ler os livros da Agatha Christe através da colecção Vampiro e nunca nenhum deles me desiludiu. Este foi mais um livro que me deixou maravilhada. Apesar de serem vários os policiais que encontramos nas bancas, e também eles de grande qualidade, na minha opinião ainda ninguém conseguiu chegar ao nível de criatividade desta autora, Agatha Christie é sem dúvida a Rainha dos Policiais.
Neste livro, e através da sua mais famosa personagem, Hercule Poirot, Christie leva-nos a...more

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Feb 10, 2012 Sheri rated it 3 of 5 stars

Lovely quick read. Mildly entertaining, page turner and easy read. Yes, Agatha Christie has some time biases (and she is certainly not a feminist), but her books are fun and quick and work to fill 24 hours. This particular novel was a bit repetitive (did Poirot really need to go through all his thoughts and remind the reader of the clues so many times?) and he seemed a bit more dim-witted than usual (I figured out that Louise was the same Louise very quickly). The ending was a bit too Scooby-doo...more

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Jul 13, 2012 Sarah Strauss rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

To date, this is one of my least favorite of books written by Agatha Christie. The plot was too slow-driven for me. There were also some character traits of Hercule Poirot that drove me crazy in this story. The ending in a way was very implausible for me. I believe that I would be able to tell the difference between two people simply by one person just wearing a wig. The ending for this book vs the ending of a Masterpiece Theater episode of this book is also slightly changed and modified. I now...more

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Nov 24, 2012 Ruby Scarlett rated it 3 of 5 stars

Not one of her best for sure, it felt so all over the place! I enjoyed, in a masochistic kind of way I suppose, the constant reminder that the profession of detective is falling into oblivion by the time she writes this (the late 60s) and that probably means that Poirot is going to have to let go at some point. It was interesting to think about the decline of the profession and of Poirot's reputation (nobody from the younger generation has heard of him in this book, and he's described as 'old' b...more

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Jan 27, 2009 Phayvanh rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Poirot fans

Recommended to Phayvanh by: library book sale

Shelves: 2009, agatha-christie, reviews

Join Hercule Poirot and Mrs. Ariadne Oliver as they discover London's youth culture, full of drugs, ne'er-do-wells, blackmail, and MURDER!

Though Christie is pretty adept at bringing characters of all stripes to life, she stumbles putting heart and passion into the young and tragically hip, both here and in Remembered Death / Sparkling Cyanide. In these books, the author's prejudice against the vacuous inanity that is the young urban generation clearly show through.

Whatever. Rich people are rich...more

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Jun 22, 2012 Debbie Robson rated it 3 of 5 stars

I generally don't read that many murder mysteries but as my life is chaotic at the moment I thought an Agatha Christie would be fun and it was. I also chose it becase I wanted to see how Christie "managed" the sixties. And not too badly considering her age at the time of writing and I actually thought the "Peacock" worked. Gosh men did have a different aura about them from around the mid sixties till the mid/to late 70s! I caught the tail end of that era and it was interesting to say the least.
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Jan 03, 2013 Eden rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Agatha Christie fans

Shelves: mystery-thriller, fiction

4 stars

Third Girl is the first Agatha Christie book I have read that is set on the 1960's. It is stripped of the glamour of her older books (I was fooled by a cover with a very chic glove!), but the writing style is as beautiful and enthralling as I remembered it.

Norma Restarick is the “third girl” renting a London flat with two other girls, to help paying the rent. She comes to Hercule Poirot’s house asking for help because she might be guilty of murder, but leaves when she finds him ‘too old’....more

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Sep 17, 2012 Estefânia Botelho rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: livros-2012, livros-lidos-meus, oferta-asa, policial

Razões da escolha do livro: Oferta Asa Editora (Leya). Mais um livro da Agatha Christie e com Poirot que adoro!!!!
Proveniência: Oferta Asa Editora (Leya).
A minha Opinião:
Quando uma jovem pede ajuda a Poirot porque pensa que cometeu um crime e depois desaparece, cria-se desde logo uma atmosfera de suspense a que Agatha Christie já nos tinha habituado!
É neste contexto que Poirot, juntamente com a sua hilariante amiga e escritora Ariadne Oliver, começam a investigar este “crime” que não tem corpo…...more Razões da escolha do livro: Oferta Asa Editora (Leya). Mais um livro da Agatha Christie e com Poirot que adoro!!!!
Proveniência: Oferta Asa Editora (Leya).
A minha Opinião:
Quando uma jovem pede ajuda a Poirot porque pensa que cometeu um crime e depois desaparece, cria-se desde logo uma atmosfera de suspense a que Agatha Christie já nos tinha habituado!
É neste contexto que Poirot, juntamente com a sua hilariante amiga e escritora Ariadne Oliver, começam a investigar este “crime” que não tem corpo….
Mais uma vez Poirot consegue surpreender com as suas “ celulazinhas cinzentas” e este livro prende o leitor do início ao fim porque alia o crime ao suspense e ao humor, muito característicos da “Dama do Crime”.
É um livro que nos permite conhecer melhor a natureza humana e que, ao mesmo tempo, nos distrai e diverte. Uma leitura viciante e empolgante a não perder!
O melhor: O sentido de humor visível na relação Poirot/ Ariadne Oliver.
O pior: Quando chega ao fim porque queremos mais e mais…
A Autora:
Agatha Christie nasceu Agatha May Clarissa Miller, em Torquay, na Grã-Bretanha, em 1890. Durante a I Guerra Mundial, prestou serviço voluntário num hospital, primeiro como enfermeira e depois como funcionária da farmácia e do dispensário. Esta experiência revelar-se-ia fundamental, não só para o conhecimento dos venenos e preparados que figurariam em muitos dos seus livros, mas também para a própria concepção da sua carreira na escrita. Com o seu segundo marido, o arqueólogo Max Mallowan, Agatha viajaria um pouco por todo o mundo, participando activamente nas suas escavações arqueológicas, nunca abandonando contudo a escrita, nem deixando passar em claro a magnífica fonte de conhecimentos e inspiração que estas representavam.
Autora de cerca de 300 obras (entre romances de mistério, poesia, peças para rádio e teatro, contos, documentários, uma autobiografia e seis romances publicados sob o pseudónimo de Mary Westmacott), viu o seu talento e o seu papel na literatura e nas artes oficialmente reconhecidos em 1956, ano em que foi distinguida com o título de Commander of the British Empire. Em 1971, a Rainha Isabel II consagrou-a com o título de Dame of the British Empire. Deixando para trás um legado universal celebrado em mais de cem línguas, a Rainha do Crime, ou Duquesa da Morte (como ela preferia ser apelidada), morreu em 12 de Janeiro de 1976. Em 2000, a 31st Bouchercon World Mistery Convention galardoou Agatha Christie com dois prémios: ela foi considerada a Melhor Autora de Livros Policiais do Século XX e os livros protagonizados por Hercule Poirot a Melhor Série Policial do mesmo século.

A minha classificação: 5 – Bom.
Período de Leitura: De 29 de Junho a 1 de Julho de 2012.
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Sep 16, 2012 Otl1987 rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: detective, 2012

I had forgotten how fun Agatha Christie is. As with all classic writers, I always think that their books will be dull and slow, even if by now I 've already read enough to prove me otherwise. Christie's books were written 50 years ago and she still remains one of the most read and favorited authors.

The plot: A young girl appears on Poirot's doorstep to confess a murder, but hurriedly leaves, without saying anything else. Intrigued by it, Poirot starts investigating and finds himself among vario...more

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Sep 09, 2011 Sophie rated it 3 of 5 stars

"She descended, banged the door and stood looking up to the sky."

"The kind of time when girls in jobs might be presumed to have returned, either to renew their makeup, change their clothes to tight exotic pants or whatever their particular addiction was, and go out again, or else to settle down to home life and wash their underwear and their stockings."

"Poirot remained thoughtful after Mr. Goby had left. He raised and lowered his eyebrows. He wondered, he wondered very much."

"'But I cannot say I...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Vera rated it 5 of 5 stars

My rating is different than most people, so therefore i have a different opinion than everyone else.

I am saying now that this is my opinion. If you want to disagree with it than fine.

A lot of people say that her books got worse later in her life. I disagree. Personally, I actually think that her books from the 1950's and 1960's are actually some of the best.

I really liked this one. There was only 2 books with Mrs Oliver that I hadn't read, so I decided to read this one. I liked it because I t...more

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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880...more

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