I am reading through the novels of Agatha Christie in the order in which they were written and writing a review on each one.
The ABC Murders
1936
Description
Agatha Christie’s world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
There’s a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim’s corpse the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place.
Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught – until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans…
My Thoughts
This is the 25th book by Agatha Christie and the 12th Poirot Mystery
It is one of my least favourites even though Hastings is involved with Poirot for the solving of this mystery.
Miss Christie used a similar method by the murderer in this story as is Curtain and that is almost a spoiler which is unusual for me to write.
Perhaps that is why both those books are among my least favourites because I particularly do not like that kind of evil.
Then there is another trait of the murderer that is also very evil so when the culprit is unmasked the reader has no sympathy for them at all.
She writes it full of red herrings but yet even among these all the clues are there waiting to be picked out and pieced together.
This is one of the books that I would definitely recommend to be read before seeing the TV adaptation of it. In fact I am a believer in any book being the real source of the story and so should always be read first but in this case I feel it really matters.
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Books by Agatha Christie
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