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"I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them."
I love starting this series over. I've never read it, only watched shows and/or plays of the Poirot so it was a great treat to start the book series. I can see why this one is listed as the first. It's the meeting up, again, of Hastings and Poirot.
And wow! Hastings does not have any faith in Poirot yet. He spends the whole time thinking he knows/sees/thinks more than Poirot. I ...more
I love starting this series over. I've never read it, only watched shows and/or plays of the Poirot so it was a great treat to start the book series. I can see why this one is listed as the first. It's the meeting up, again, of Hastings and Poirot.
And wow! Hastings does not have any faith in Poirot yet. He spends the whole time thinking he knows/sees/thinks more than Poirot. I ...more
Agatha Christie really was exceptional when it came to writing crime and it was good to remember as I was reading this that it was one of the first. Although much of it seemed predictable and many of the scenes were now familiar, at the time of writing it would have been a revelation. It was good to go right back to the beginning of Hercule Poirot. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the mystery and enjoyed how Poirot worked it all out. Hastings, the narrator, was an absolute idiot though and it
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Greatly enjoyed the performances by the cast. Peter Dinklage does a v. good Poirot.
This was interesting enough and I enjoyed reading it, but I didn't love it.
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Mar 05, 2022
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I actually liked this one a bit more than some of the later Poirot mysteries I read. This is because Poirot is explaining his methods and thinking to Hastings. In later books it sometimes felt like his theories came out of nowhere, so I appreciated getting more information in this one...even when it was misleading. The mystery kept me guessing with lots of twists and turns as to who the primary suspect was. I liked Hastings and his relationship with Poirot. I will definitely continue to read the
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Sep 02, 2013
Reggie
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Ivy
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Feb 01, 2020
Gina
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Mar 16, 2025
Heather
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