The Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

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The Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot #2)

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An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies facedown in a shallow grave on a golf course.

But why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And for whom was the impassioned love letter in the pocket? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned ups...more

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Published June 14th 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1923)

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Aug 14, 2012 Abbey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: myst-cosies, myst-pi, vintage, own, sell, myst-fems-project, myst-set-andor-auth-uk

BOTTOM LINE: Not at all her best novel, but an interesting read - quite annoying by about a third of the way through, but by the end becomes very satisfying in its twists and turns. “Fair Play!” from a de luxe detective, decent pacing, and a fair amount of romance as well.

Begged to “come immediately!”, when Poirot arrives in a small French resort town he is informed that his client is dead, under extremely suspicious circumstances. And Madame Renauld has been found bound and gagged; when releas...more BOTTOM LINE: Not at all her best novel, but an interesting read - quite annoying by about a third of the way through, but by the end becomes very satisfying in its twists and turns. “Fair Play!” from a de luxe detective, decent pacing, and a fair amount of romance as well.

Begged to “come immediately!”, when Poirot arrives in a small French resort town he is informed that his client is dead, under extremely suspicious circumstances. And Madame Renauld has been found bound and gagged; when released she spins an intricate tale of two masked men who kidnaped her husband demanding to know the whereabouts of “the secret!!”. Things only get more convoluted from there...

Filled with improbable French magistrates, detectives, maids and gardeners, and a femme fatale or three, this is initially not one of my favorite Christie novels - it hasn’t aged well, at least upon initial inspection, and its archness may be a bit much for modern readers. But the plotting is first-rate, the pacing very good, and all the folderol has a purpose - everything fits nicely at the end. Many layers need to be stripped away before we come to the true conclusion, and in the proper use of cluing and obfuscation there is no one better than Christie, even though this is a very early work and she was only barely scratching the surface of her considerable talents. Here she hews very closely to styles of the day, and gives her readers pretty nearly everything they might have wanted: glamourous ladies, rich and enigmatic gentlemen, peculiar and dark goings-on a plenty, and several pairs of lovers all mixed together and shuffled rather nicely.

And at the center stands Poirot, who fits rather well into the pseudo-French “ambiance”, but somehow Christie doesn’t make it seem too, too “precious” - almost, but not quite. She does manage to poke fun at popular detection trends of the day pretty thoroughly, particularly the then-famous AEW Mason, but also delivers a clear explanation at the end, without too much fussiness or flummery, unlike many of her contemporaries.

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Apr 02, 2013 Ensiform rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The second Hercule Poirot novel. To explain its plot accurately would take half an hour and a whiteboard, but briefly: the Belgian detective and his aide Hastings are summoned to the house of M. Renauld, a millionaire who fears for his life. They arrive too late, finding him already dead, half-buried in an unfinished golf bunker, supposedly at the hands of bearded foreign thugs, and possibly at the hands of a jilted lover. But Poirot soon unearths not one, but two of the principals are living un...more

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Jan 22, 2008 Santh memories rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Hercule Poirot received a letter of asking help, where the surprise thing was it came at once with the death of the writer. He was found in the golf court, almost buried. With the assistance of his best friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, they came to the place of incident.
What was the connection between two murders happened during last 20 years? Between the millionaire’s wife and his secret lover lived next door? Between a beautiful entertainer girl and a blackmail? And the worse, the second murde...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Arun rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a wealthy businessman in France. He says that the matter is of grave importance, that he possesses a "secret" and that he would tell things in detail once Poirot arrives. However, when Poirot, along with Hastings, arrives, things have gone out of control. The businessman Reunald was found murdered. Bewildered, Poirot stood when the inspector who investigated the case, an old friend of Poirot, invites him to help him solve the case. They also have already hir...more

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Mar 31, 2013 D.M. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, agatha-christie

This title is Christie's third novel and the second featuring Hercule Poirot.

Already, in 1922, when it was first published, she had perfectly formed the Belgian detective of those unbeatable grey cells. There's a lot in this novel, a broad cast of characters that are all busily involved in the mystery one way or the other, a lot of comings and goings, across the channel and back again: England and France, and more than one major crime of murder that needs careful detection. In this story, Chris...more

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Apr 11, 2012 Alice rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

•Mlle Alice, pouvez-vous nous raconter votre rencontre avec Le Crime du Golf ?

"Dans le cadre du Challenge Agatha Christie, je continue ma quête des aventures d'Hercule Poirot et ceci en est le deuxième volet."

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"Poirot reçoit une étrange lettre d'un homme d'affaire le suppliant de venir à son secours sans tarder et de le rejoindre, pour ce faire, à Merlinville, en France. Hercule Poirot et le Capitaine Hastings décident de se rendre sur place mais lo...more

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Feb 17, 2012 J rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: all-things-agatha

Re-read 2/16/12: I'm in the process of re-reading all of Agatha Christie - one of my favorite authors!

I'd take Agatha over most other books, but this isn't my favorite book of hers. It's the 3rd book she published and her second to involve Hercule Poirot. I think she stumbled a bit. She defines Poirot's character, but makes him appear a bit too harsh. She also makes Hastings appear like a love-sick buffoon, instead of just a lovable romance-prone gentleman. She won't write about the pair again...more

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Jan 18, 2012 Debbie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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"Murder on the Links" is a historical mystery featuring Hercule Poirot. Though written as a contemporary mystery, it's now a historical. Still, it contains enough detail that the historical references can be understood.

The mystery was clever and complex, but whodunit could be guessed from the clues. In fact, the critical evidence was repeated several times--the hard part was making sense of what the clues meant. It was fun that Poirot was competing against a Sherlock-Holmes-type local detective,...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Peter rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Enjoyable second full length novel featuring Agatha Christie's Poirot (partnered with reliable Hastings) features a trip across the Channel to the lovely shores of resorts of Northern France. Somewhat fanciful, but compelling story featuring three knives and therefore three murders!

Still early in her career, Agatha was enjoying Poirot and he comes across quite vibrant and fun here. Hastings and his ill-conceived and his annoying love affair mars the novel with his eternal moodiness. I don't re...more

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Sep 13, 2010 Laurel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. (Spoilers) This was my first time reading Murder on the Links, for the simple reason that I thought I'd read it and had not. The trouble with Dame Agatha's titles is that many of them could apply to more than one of her novels, and most had separate titles for British vs. American publication--I often find I've read a novel even if I don't recognize the title of my edition. Thus, I mentally conflated Murder on the Links with Why Didn't They Ask Evans? because I assumed there was only one novel w...more (Spoilers) This was my first time reading Murder on the Links, for the simple reason that I thought I'd read it and had not. The trouble with Dame Agatha's titles is that many of them could apply to more than one of her novels, and most had separate titles for British vs. American publication--I often find I've read a novel even if I don't recognize the title of my edition. Thus, I mentally conflated Murder on the Links with Why Didn't They Ask Evans? because I assumed there was only one novel where the body is found on a golf course. I was pleased to get this from the library and find it was that rarest of treats, an unread Agatha!

Murder on the Links is a very early novel, Christie's third, and the characters are rather different than I'm used to. Poirot has all of his quirks intact but refers to himself as an "elderly" retired detective whom most people have not heard of. I wonder at what point Christie realized that she would be writing about him for a long, LONG time and gave him his customary hubris? Golden Age Poirot assumes everyone knows his reputation, and he ages but little over Christie's 50+ year career. More startling, though, was Hastings, who appears far more impulsive and romantic than the rather stodgily British narrator I know from later novels. But then, he is young, and I think he *does* age as a character, far moreso than Poirot does.

My reading of Murder on the Links was complicated by the fact that I've already read later novels, especially Curtain, in which Hastings refers to his wife by her pet name "Cinders". It was charming to realize that I was reading their love story, but of course I knew she could not be the murderess even though Christie makes her look very guilty until almost the end. I wish I had been surprised!

A quirk of this novel is that it is set in France and we are to assume that the characters are speaking French throughout; Christie represents this by having them speak rather stiltedly in what I recognize as a literal translation into English of French sentence structures. It's rather clever and I think the young Christie was fresh from her own French studies, but it gets tiresome eventually.

I was impressed but exhausted by the plot! This is most definitely YOUNG Agatha, overflowing with ideas and breathlessly cramming perhaps too many of them into one novel. I give her full marks for staying two steps ahead of the reader and anticipating my criticisms. For instance, at a certain point I thought, "oh, NO, don't tell me it's twins! What a cliche!" and then it was twins and I was disappointed, but behold! The twins were a red herring and she had a better twist in store. There were actually multiple moments like that, so that I felt disappointed repeatedly but then pleased later on. It made for much less "flow" that most of her novels; I felt jerked around rather a lot.

Overall, I would say that Murder on the Links bears clear hallmarks of Christie's genius but is not the best example of it, if that makes sense. She is more coherent and just as clever elsewhere--she was just a couple of years away from writing The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, after all. I would recommend this novel to established fans but wouldn't give it to someone new to Dame Agatha's canon.(less)

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Jan 30, 2012 Cheryl rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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MURDER ON THE LINKS, Agatha Christie's second book with Hercule Poirot as the sleuth, was written in nineteen twenty-three. With Arthur Hastings now sharing a room in London with his friend Poirot, the reader has a congenial narrator living with the little man with the grey cells. But Poirot's explanations do not lead to an easy solution to the mystery of who killed P.T. Renauld, a millionare with South American business ties.

Responding to a desperate appeal by Renauld for Poirot's help, the two...more

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Apr 30, 2011 Mary Ronan Drew rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Golf must have been really big in 1923 when this book was published. There’s no other explanation for the title because the book has almost no connection with golf. Sure, the body is found in a open grave on land where a golf course was being built (in France no less) – and that is one of the important clues to the mystery – but it might as well have been any construction site.

We who love her books forgive Agatha Christie her whim and in this complicated story with new revelations every few page...more Golf must have been really big in 1923 when this book was published. There’s no other explanation for the title because the book has almost no connection with golf. Sure, the body is found in a open grave on land where a golf course was being built (in France no less) – and that is one of the important clues to the mystery – but it might as well have been any construction site.

We who love her books forgive Agatha Christie her whim and in this complicated story with new revelations every few pages we are much more interested in which of the many and varied characters could have done the murder than the mystery of the inappropriate title.

The wealthy Mr Renauld’s body is found in a shallow open grave clad only in his underwear and a too-long overcoat. His wife is in their bedroom tied securely and gagged. The front door is open and no one heard anything in the night, which, considering the housekeeper is a light sleeper and the stairs creak loudly, is a mystery in itself.

The suspects include two South American desperadoes who, Mrs Renauld says, tied her up and kidnapped her husband; the Renaulds’ son who was thought to be on a steamer bound for Buenos Aeries at the time (but was he?); the mysterious Mme Daubreuil, a woman with a past; her beautiful daughter, Marthe; the unidentified Bella Duveen; and possibly Mr Renauld’s secretary, Stoner. As is usual in a Christie murder mystery the spotlight shines on each character in turn as Poirot and the reader consider the motive and opportunity of each.

When the murder weapon goes missing and a remarkably well-dressed tramp is found dead with it in his chest things become even more puzzling. Meanwhile Hastings has (as usual) fallen in love with a young woman he met on a train even though he has no idea who she is or even her name. Could she be in any way involved with this murder? Again the spotlight scans each character and Poirot uses the little grey cells to outwit the arrogant French detective and solve the mystery.

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Feb 07, 2013 Nay rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Oh lordy lord, I really thought I had this one in the bag. The fact that I had all of this unravelled along with Poirot, and I was able to enjoy Hasting's bumblings, made this book so much lovelier for me. And then, right at the end, BOOM, it all turns upside down on its head and I'm completely baffled. Love it.

A quick recount of the story if you're interested in this book. It's the second Poirot book written by Christie, and although she indirectly compares the lovely Poirot to the genius that...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Bigyellowtaxi1 rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: agatha-christie, poirot, crime

For some reason this didn't quite work for me. I'm going to put this down to being one of Christie's early novels (only her third) and that she's yet to find her own style. She is very much working in a Conan Doyle style and I don't think that her own characteristics as an author were fully developed by this point.

Surprisingly for a book in which Hastings plays such an important role, there's very little humour. He's not a character who was fully utilised in this novel, which is a pity because t...more

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May 17, 2013 Alan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After a string of short stories starring Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie returns to the novel format with her Belgian detective. This time he and Hastings travel to France at the request of a wealthy Frenchman only to find him murdered, in very odd circumstances, when they arrive.

This is not a particularly good Christie story. The plot is convoluted without being particularly interesting. Poirot has a foil in a braggart of a French detective, but this seems more forced than natural.

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Jun 18, 2012 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: agatha-christie, crime, murder, mystery, kindle

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.
But why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse...

This is the second book in the Poirot series and the first...more

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Jul 22, 2011 Senny89 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Devo ammettere che questo libro all'inizio non ingrana molto, è un po' noioso, e uno continua a chiedersi 'quand'é che diventi interessante?'. Poi arriva il primo colpo di scena. Poi un altro. Poi un altro ancora. Poi un altro. E sembra non finiscano mai.

Finalmente la storia decolla e devi rimanere attaccato al libro per sapere come finisce. Verso la fine magari tutti questi colpi di scena cominciano a diventare un po' troppo forzati, troppo ingombranti, ma prima che ci si stufi il libro finisce...more

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Oct 21, 2009 Douglas rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Agatha Christie fans only

Shelves: mystery, borrowed

This book suffered from simply having too much in it. Perhaps some would like the twists, turns, flips, and surprises at the end, but I failed to enjoy them because of M. Poirot. What an insufferably cruel man to sit back content with his knowledge while allowing others to emotionally react to each new, but false, development. Obviously, Christie wrote him that way so that she could delight her readers with a plot that had more twists than the Colorado River. Unfortunately for me, the story's en...more

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Apr 05, 2013 Mónica Silva rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A Rainha do Crime continua com a sua fórmula para criar excelentes policiais, mantendo o leitor constantemente interessado na estória e motivado para deslindar o crime.

Um dos pontos fortes desta estória foi o facto de assentar sobre um crime antigo, um segredo do passado que aparenta ser fulcral para a resolução deste mistério.

Contudo, este livro deixou-me um pouco desiludida, principalmente devido à escolha do narrador. Em vez de ser Poir...more

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Mar 30, 2013 sabisteb rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Captain Hastings hat sich im Zug von Paris nach Calais in eine Mitreisende verliebt, was Poirot nicht sonderlich spannend findet. Viel spannender findet er den neuen Auftrag aus Südfrankreich von einem Monsieur Paul Renauld. Poirot nimmt, warum auch immer, Hastings zu diesem Fall mit nach Merlinville-sur-Mer. Leider kommen sie zu spät, der Auftraggeber ist bereits tot. Er und seine Frau wurden im eigenen Haus von zwei maskierten Männern überfallen, die die Gattin fesselten und den Ehemann und Au...more Captain Hastings hat sich im Zug von Paris nach Calais in eine Mitreisende verliebt, was Poirot nicht sonderlich spannend findet. Viel spannender findet er den neuen Auftrag aus Südfrankreich von einem Monsieur Paul Renauld. Poirot nimmt, warum auch immer, Hastings zu diesem Fall mit nach Merlinville-sur-Mer. Leider kommen sie zu spät, der Auftraggeber ist bereits tot. Er und seine Frau wurden im eigenen Haus von zwei maskierten Männern überfallen, die die Gattin fesselten und den Ehemann und Auftraggeber mitnahmen und erstachen, nachdem sie ihn sein eigenes Grab schaufeln ließen. Der Sohn Jack war währenddessen auf Geschäftsreise in Südamerika.
Hatte Renauld eine Affäre mit seiner Nachbarin Madame Daubreuil, die Poirot als Mörderin aus einem 20 Jahre zurückliegenden Fall erkennt? Kurz darauf wird eine weitere Leiche eines Mannes entdeckt, der jedoch eines natürlichen Todes starb und post mortem erstochen wurde.

Ein extreme verwickelter Fall, dem man als Hörspiel nur sehr schlecht folgen kann, weil viele der Personen, die erwähnt werden, selber nie auftreten, nur kurz auftreten und teils auch noch unter zwei Namen laufen. Das Ganze ist dermaßen überkonstruiert, dass die für das Hörspiel wohl notwendigen Kürzungen, das Ganze noch schlechter verständlich machen. Einige Beziehungen zwischen den Personen wurden mit auch bis zum Schluss nicht wirklich klar und die Motive und die eigentlich zwei Fälle, die hier gemischt werden sind einfach zu viel für dieses Hörspiel, das als Roman sicherlich deutlich spannender und besser verständlich sein dürfte.
Auch wird hier vorausgesetzt, dass der Hörer wohl weiß, dass zu diesem Zeitpunkt Hastings und Poirot eine Holmes Watson WG haben, es wäre aber nett gewesen, das zumindest zu erklären und zu erwähnen.
Auch wenn John Moffatt erneut einen wirklich genialen Poirot gibt, die Sprecher durchweg top sind und die akustische Umsetzung das BBC übliche hohe Niveau erreicht, ist die Umsetzung dieses Falls so verwirrend und chaotisch, die Konstellationen zu verwickelt oder zu wenig erklärt, dass ich diesmal nur 3 Sterne geben kann.
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Aug 28, 2011 Olga rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Ercule Poirot receives a letter begging him to travel to France to help in a mysterious case. Upon his arrival it turns out that the man who wrote the letter was murdered and it is up to Poirot and his friend Captain Hastings to solve the murder and a couple of other mysteries along the way.

A couple of years ago I got my hands on a volume of five of Christie's Miss Marple mysteries along with a book of short stories and for some reason while I enjoyed them I didn't love them. It all seemed very...more Ercule Poirot receives a letter begging him to travel to France to help in a mysterious case. Upon his arrival it turns out that the man who wrote the letter was murdered and it is up to Poirot and his friend Captain Hastings to solve the murder and a couple of other mysteries along the way.

A couple of years ago I got my hands on a volume of five of Christie's Miss Marple mysteries along with a book of short stories and for some reason while I enjoyed them I didn't love them. It all seemed very formulaic with superficial characters and without much feeling. Now that I've been reading more of her books I can't help but think that the timing wasn't right when I picked up that volume. I even remember saying in earlier Christie reviews that to me her novels are good riddles but usually don't have much depth. I officially take it back.
This was Christie's second published novel and already we have a theme that will repeat in a number of her later books - heredity and its effects on a person's character. Poirot is a big believer in heredity and something tells me that Dame Agatha was as well. It was interesting to see how such considerations played a part in the characters' actions.
We also have the matter of social classes and marriage outside of one's class. It seems like an archaic and snobbish subject in this day and age but in Christie's time it was very much relevant and I must admit, marriage is difficult enough without partnering up with someone who doesn't even have the benefit of a similar background. Like Poirot said, 99 times out of 100 it doesn't make for a happy union. But do not despair, my democratic friends, luckily for us Christie favors love and happiness much more than numbers and odds, and that's all I'm going to say about that.
As far as the characters go this set was a lot of fun. Hastings always deems himself such a great detective and speaks of Poirot almost pityingly when the Belgian genius makes conclusions that don't coincide with his. Fortunately he remains such a good sport when he realizes that all his ideas were wrong that one can't hold it against him, which I don't think Poirot ever does. The French police are a different matter entirely and it was very amusing to watch them battle it out over the many plot twists - as the officer in charge of the investigation lamented this was not at all a simple case and you do have to get the little grey cells working to keep track of it all.
Mme Renauld was definitely my favorite female character. She was a remarkable woman indeed and only at the very end of the book do we see the full extent of it. The rest weren't very straightforward either. We have devotion, self-sacrifice, strength, deceit and calculation all present and as carefully as I watched for clues I couldn't always tell who was looking out for whose interests. Hope you have better luck, both here and with the identity of the killer - I was off the mark yet again and A.C. is currently leading 15-0. That's ok, I have 51 more chances. (less)

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Apr 10, 2009 Bernie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

On receipt of a letter urgently asking for his help, Poirot, with Hastings in attendance, rushes to France. They arrive to find that they are too late; the letter writer has been murdered. Enter the usual cast of suspects - wife, son, son's love interest, secretary, mystery neighbour, domestics. Christie characters are rarely well developed, but usually I have some sympathy or interest in their stories. This time, none of them really stood out. Even the murder victim, whose character is often we...more

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Jul 06, 2012 Stacy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is Christie’s third book and second with Poirot and narrated by Hastings. Poirot grew on me a bit in this one. I like smart guys and he wasn’t quite the insufferable know-it-all he was in the first. This time around he had to outsolve the French Detective Geraud.

Hastings had a love interest and I wasn’t that crazy about his infatuation with the mysterious Cinderella. The only other complaint I will make it about this cover and the title, really. Renauld was found on the border of a golf cou...more

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May 03, 2013 Jack rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Murder on the Links is a Hercule Poirot tale from the wonderful mind of Agatha Christie.

Two brutes come through an open door, abduct a man at night from his bedroom, tie up his wife, and proceed to kill him. Open and shut case.

And then Hercule Poirot interjects himself into the investigation with his little grey cells, always thinking.

Christie has excellent characters, as usual, and many of them have secrets which might or might not have a bearing on the case. Poirot knows, but can he prove it?...more

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Jan 16, 2011 Stephanie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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In this, an early sampling of Hercule Poirot's genius, the great detective ventures to France, with the faithfully assumptive Captain Hastings at his side, in order to answer a plea for assistance from a wealthy man in fear for his life. Unfortunately, Hercule Poirot arrives too late and finds that his would-have-been client has been murdered. Rivaling against a pompous French detective who considers himself superior to the excellent Belgiun, Poirot must decypher a confusion of clues, uncover th...more

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Jun 15, 2009 Hannah rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

Murder on the Links is definitely one for fans of Captain Hastings. He exhibits his usual grand imagination and gets everything completely wrong again, which is the one trait that makes him so endearing. Here, he finally finds the romance that he's been seeking, but unfortunately, this is one of the times when Christie does not deliver her best. The actual mystery is honestly rather dull, and the girl, supposedly a spirited good sport, came across as rather two-dimensional. The "romance" was bar...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mysteries, england

The Murder on the Links is the second of Christie's Poirot series and from it a better picture of what this Belgian detective is like. The thing that struck me was that he might be a precursor to the man known in the current day as Mr. Adrian Monk. Hercule Poirot comes into a room and immediately looks around and if he can he will begin to straighten up the pictures on the wall, align edges of things out of place and generally look for what is out of order. This is basically the method to his ma...more

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Sep 29, 2011 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mysteries, ebooks

A typically solid Agatha Christie effort, and as is the case with many of her works, it is the final plot twists and the ultimate resolution of events that raise this Hercule Poirot outing to a special level. Of course, I say this as a huge Christie homer, so there is much bias to be found here. The title of this one is deceptive, as the story has next to nothing to do with golf, but that's merely an observation and not a complaint. The tale revolves around a set of parents and their son and his...more

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Feb 15, 2013 Dentro de un Libro rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Esta es la tercer novela que publico Agatha Christie, y la segunda en la que aparece Hércules Poirot.
La historia cuenta con el Capitán Hastings como narrador, esto es algo que personalmente disfruto, es muy divertido ver la dinámica en la relación entre Poirot y Hastings. También es entretenido ver lo fácil que el capitán se enamora, y como toda mujer para él es hermosa e interesante.
La trama es intrigante, quizás por momentos algo sobre cargada. El ritmo de la historia muy bueno, y toda nimieda...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Rebekah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: agatha-christie

I did not quite enjoy this book as much though as I would like to but maybe it is because I have been readng too much of her books.

Still an enjoyable mystery but not quite suspenseful since there were quite a lot of distractions with the French police, stories, members of the household coming in at different times, many theories and finally at the end, the culprit.

For this story, I think it was a smart idea for the story and everything seem to piece together nicely.

Then again, I really hope Ha...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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“Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!” — 11 people liked it

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