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Three Act Tragedy
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January 1, 2019
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January 31, 2019
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Archive: Poirot Buddy Reads
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The latest in our series of Poirot buddy reads.

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What Members Thought

Adrian
Excellent, Poirot at his imperious best. More thoughts tomorrow.

Through Christmas and the New Year (2018/19) my family and I watched a lot of Agatha Christie, from David Suchet's Poirot, through Peter Ustinov to John Malkovich, plus also a documentary drama about Christie's disappearance for 11 days in 1926. Included in this Christmas Christie extravaganza was "Three act tragedy".

So to the book itself; although Poirot does not appear as much as he does in the TV version, he is still instrumental
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Sahifa
Jul 27, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: agatha-christie
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
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Kara
Nov 08, 2020 rated it liked it
Shelves: agatha-christie
Another nice quick read. Really enjoyed the plot even if I was unsatisfied with the murderer (I don't like the trope that Christie played into here). Poirot took a back foot in this book but swooped in to solve everything with his little grey cells. ...more
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Jan 07, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
David
Mar 02, 2014 rated it it was ok
Shelves: childhood-read
Maria T
Jul 09, 2014 rated it liked it
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Aug 05, 2014 rated it liked it
Dee Ann
Dec 24, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Manina
May 04, 2015 rated it did not like it
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Nov 27, 2015 rated it liked it
Diane Lending
Jan 25, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Laurel
Jan 28, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Ashley
Apr 18, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Heather Dubois
Mar 22, 2017 rated it really liked it
Gemima
Jun 22, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Tania
Aug 28, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Kristin
Sep 09, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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John
Dec 25, 2019 rated it really liked it
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Jan 16, 2020 rated it really liked it