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WHAT?? HIS LANDLADY’S DAUGHTER IS EXPLOITING HIM, A MENTALLY ILL VETERAN, TO WAGE A BATTLE OF WITS AGAINST POIROT?? I DID NOT SEE THIS ONE COMING! I’m almost going to be disappointed if it DOESN’T turn out this way

I really don’t know, lol. Cust is at the scenes of the murders but Christie has enough plausible deniability as to what actually happened. I think that Cust will be the key to figuring out who the murderer ACTUALLY is. Both Thora Grey and Franklin Clarke are looking pretty good for it, so naturally it’ll end up being someone else entirely.

Suspecting that the murderer was Franklin Clarke, killing his brother for some reason, with the previous two murders serving as a blind.

Okay. I’m not so sure what is going on with Cust now. It would be quite a different story if he truly was the killer. Given Christie’s penchant for reveals, I’m like 50/50 on whether he is a red herring, maybe an individual who “ABC” sent his list of names and addresses to, maybe set up as a patsy due to the alphabet scheme. I suspect that all but one of the murders are a cover for the motive of the other.

lol is it inspector crome

Okay, the mystery is that we know the real name of the murderer but he will presumably be operating within Poirot’s range under an assumed name…

What??? If I am correct then Christie is giving away the identity of the murderer in the second chapter!