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I listened to this on the whim yesterday afternoon. It was a fun diversion. Lots of twists and turns, red herrings, and in Christie-style, everyone is suspect except the actual killer. I enjoyed her taking potshots at Sherlock Holmes and his style of looking for tiny clues and ignoring the big picture. Poirot works with his mind until the puzzle is solved and every little piece fits.
This was the first Christie I listened to instead of reading. I will return to reading as I find that the narrato ...more
This was the first Christie I listened to instead of reading. I will return to reading as I find that the narrato ...more
My second Poirot book, though not in order as the first was Murder on the Orient Express. Although the complexity of the murder solving wasn't quite at the level of the Orient Express, it was still a fairly complicated knot to unravel. Poirot is invited to support a gentleman in France with a note to hurry as he feared for himself but alas he was too late. The gentleman in question has already been found on golf course he was developing, stabbed in the back. There are numerous ladies in his life
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Oct 31, 2013
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Audio book performed by Hugh Fraser
Captain Arthur Hastings narrates this second book in the mystery series featuring Hercule Poirot. It all begins when Hastings meets a young woman on a train. In short order Poirot receives a letter from a South American millionaire living in France stating that his life is in danger and pleading with Poirot to come at once. Hastings and Poirot immediately go to France, only to find that their “client” has been murdered. There is no shortage of suspects – wife, ...more
Captain Arthur Hastings narrates this second book in the mystery series featuring Hercule Poirot. It all begins when Hastings meets a young woman on a train. In short order Poirot receives a letter from a South American millionaire living in France stating that his life is in danger and pleading with Poirot to come at once. Hastings and Poirot immediately go to France, only to find that their “client” has been murdered. There is no shortage of suspects – wife, ...more
This has never been one of my favourite Poirots, not because of Poirot himself, who is as amusing as ever, but because Hastings is even more gormless than usual & there were no other particularly likeable characters. I really didn't care who was had up for murder in the end.
There is, however, a sweetness in meeting Hastings' auburn-haired girl for the first time: the woman who took him to South America, & whom he returned without many years later. I do miss him when he is gone.
The usual convolut ...more
There is, however, a sweetness in meeting Hastings' auburn-haired girl for the first time: the woman who took him to South America, & whom he returned without many years later. I do miss him when he is gone.
The usual convolut ...more
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Apr 10, 2022
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Once again, the queen of mystery fooled me. I did get a couple of the twists right, but just when I was sure who did it, I was wrong. Guess that is why I love these so much. In this one we have a man who reaches out to Poirot telling him he is afraid for his life and even though Poirot leaves immediately, he is not fast enough to save the man. Hastings is just sort of a bumbling fool though, in all of the Poirot novels I've read so I'm not exactly sure why Poirot puts up with him. I guess all th
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Apr 10, 2023
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Poirot receives a letter from a gentleman in France asking for his assistance because he believes his life to be in danger. When Poirot arrives, it is too late because the man had been murdered. Poirot now must discover who killed him. This was a fun mystery and I like how Christie uses Hastings as a proxy for the reader as Poirot tries to guide him to solve the mystery without telling him the answers. I felt like I got to know both Poirot and Hastings more in this book than in the first one in
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3.5 stars Cinderella! Going through the Hercule Poirot mystery series. This was fun with a Cinderella twist. I am looking forward to reading the next book.
Hastings is an idiot, but I’m glad he got a girl in the end.
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