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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 ...more
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 ...more

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
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

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.
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