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Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)

Agatha Christie

Start date: January 1, 2019

Finish date: January 31, 2019

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Mar 16, 2021 Calum Fisher rated it liked it · review of another edition

One of the few Poirot novels which I'd never read/didn't know the murderer from a TV adaptation or the like - and it's not top tier, but is still a damn good mystery. I prefer Christie in an enclosed setting, with a relatively small group of characters trapped together in a set of typically toxic and duplicitous relationships (see the families in Hercule Poirot's Christmas, or Dumb Witness) - such setups unleash Christie at her darkest, wittiest best. Three Act Tragedy is not like this - there's ...more

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Jul 27, 2018 Sahifa rated it it was amazing

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And so the CURTAIN falls on my Hercule Poirot challenge!
The book indeed is one of the best written by Agatha Christie and it being my 39th and last in Poirot series made it even more special. I took the challenge in january 2016 and after almost 2.5 years I successfully completed it.
I dont have enough words to express the euphoria I am experiencing at the moment. Hercule Poirot had been and will (most probably) remain my favourite fictional detectives. I know the world swoon over Sherlock Holmes ...more

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Jan 05, 2019 Sandy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: rread-2019, mystery-detective-grp, mystery-classic

A Poirot novel with very little Poirot. After a wonderful scene with whining children complaining there is nothing to do, Poirot decides retirement bores him and returns to England to solve the crime. I couldn't have done it without him. ...more

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