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Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #40)

Agatha Christie

Start date: November 1, 2020

Finish date: November 30, 2020

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Feb 09, 2015 Kavita rated it it was ok

Shelves: uk, mystery

It's not that Agatha Christie has never written a bad book in her career. Though I love most of her books, I do not like some of her more political novels. So while I am not shocked that I disliked this book, never has Christie written something so meandering and pointless.

Till the last chapter, the book seems to have no plot at all. There is no murder committed, there is nothing happening. There are not even any interesting interactions between the various characters like in The Hollow before ...more

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Sep 07, 2024 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was published in 1966, the year I was born. There is often an assumption that Christie's later works are not as good as those in her classic years - the 1930's and 1940's. Still, recently I have read both this and Endless Night, published in 1967, and both were far better than I had expected. Christie was born in 1890 and died in 1976 (by the age of ten I was already a fan and vividly remember crying when she died). When this novel was written, the author was in her Seventies and, having gr ...more

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Jan 30, 2017 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing

A young woman comes to see Hercule Poirot without an appointment and having spoken to him for a few minutes, telling him she thinks she has committed a murder, she announces he can't help her as he is too old and walks out. Poirot is to say the least, rather offended - not to say intrigued. He speaks to his friend Mrs Ariadne Oliver, the crime novelist. She recalls suggesting to a girl of similar appearance that she consult Poirot and remembers enough about her for them to find out who she is.

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