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Reading Order for the Unofficial Poirot Buddy Reads
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last updated Dec 27, 2020 08:20AM
Poirot Buddy Read 40: SPOILER THREAD Curtain
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last updated Feb 05, 2021 06:12PM
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You know i am still um-ing and ah-ing as to whether this is 4 or 5 stars. A really great detective novel, great plot and Poirot was on top form, and to cap it all he is ably assisted by Ariadne Oliver, so why am i still prevaricating as to why its 4 or 5 stars ?
I really don't know where to start, apart from repeating myself. I checked the reviews of this book, and the ratings average less than 4.0, so maybe it isn't just me.
It's good, its complex but simple, its well thought out, it doesn't rush ...more
I really don't know where to start, apart from repeating myself. I checked the reviews of this book, and the ratings average less than 4.0, so maybe it isn't just me.
It's good, its complex but simple, its well thought out, it doesn't rush ...more
What a way to die. Drowned while bobbing for apples at a Halloween party. Joyce an unlikeable 13 teenager announces during the preparations for the party that she once saw a murder. However, Joyce is a pathological liar and no one believes her except the murderer!
Ariadne is at the party and brings Poiret in to investigate. The small town has had au pairs disappear, widowed magnates die suddenly and a trainee lawyer knifed to death a few years ago. As Poiret says the answer to the murder is in t ...more
Ariadne is at the party and brings Poiret in to investigate. The small town has had au pairs disappear, widowed magnates die suddenly and a trainee lawyer knifed to death a few years ago. As Poiret says the answer to the murder is in t ...more
I think I might have been a bit more generous with another writer, but this one didn't stand up as well as others by her for me. I thought she tried too hard to update her novel, but I felt this let the story down.
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Feb 07, 2015
Morggie
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mysteries,
agatha-christie
My favourite Agatha Christie book and the only one that I ever managed to figure out whodunit before the end. Reread twice and will read again.
Feb 15, 2017
Sahifa
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
agatha-christie,
owned
Oct 21, 2018
True.magic
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
october-mini-challenge-2018,
october-mystery
