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I have to say this is still a real favourite of mine as far as Poirot is concerned. It also has the excellent Superintendent Battle and Mrs Ariadne Oliver, as well as a brief appearance by Colonel Race. A real cornucopia of detectives. But of course there is a real reason for this, all courtesy of the mephistophelian Mr Shaitana, who ultimately ends up dead.
This is brilliantly narrated by the truly wonderful Hugh Fraser, who obviously perfected his Poirot accent t ...more
I have to say this is still a real favourite of mine as far as Poirot is concerned. It also has the excellent Superintendent Battle and Mrs Ariadne Oliver, as well as a brief appearance by Colonel Race. A real cornucopia of detectives. But of course there is a real reason for this, all courtesy of the mephistophelian Mr Shaitana, who ultimately ends up dead.
This is brilliantly narrated by the truly wonderful Hugh Fraser, who obviously perfected his Poirot accent t ...more
Mr Shaitana has the second best mustache in London according to Poirot. Shaitana is also an likeable character but gives great parties. Poirot, Battle, Colonel Race and Mrs Ariadne Oliver (Agatha Christie’s alto ego) four sleuths attend the party. There is also invited Mrs Lorimer, Major Despard,Miss Meredith and Derek Roberts all murderers according to Mr Shaitana. After dinner a Bridge party is also underway and by the end of the evening Mr Shaitana is dead, murdered by one of the four murdere
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I haven't read an Agatha Christie in many years, what with all the BBC dramatizations, so it was especially fun to go back to the source and rediscover the reasons I came to love mysteries in the first place. When you have 15 pages left in a classic Christie, you know the murderer's identity is about to change at least three times. This is a wonderful Hercule Poirot mystery, highlighted by the appearance of Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, a mystery writer herself, who is always so sure of the killer's iden
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4 Agatha Christie sleuths and 4 people who have got away with murder and all 8 of them are invited to a dinner party by a man who knows all of their secrets. Naturally he turns up dead, but which of them committed the crime? I loved this plot and can't believe I haven't read it until now. This was a fairly slow paced book with lots of talk of psychology rather than any tangible clues to go after. This is the first novel Ariadne Oliver has appeared in and she is definitely Agatha Christie fiction
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This novel was like Christie's other novels that i read. I like this book and its ending was unexpected. However, the ending didn't take me by surprise like other novel.
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