Agatha Christie is one of the most widely read authors of detective fiction and murder mysteries. Her creation, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, is easily the most recognizable detectives in the world, after Sherlock Holmes.
This page has been specially created for book review of Agatha Christie novels, especially the ones in the Hercule Poirot series. Most posts contain review of two Poirot novels. This is due to the fact that describing a detective story too much invariably reveals some spoilers. These reviews are short and sweet, and mostly arranged in the chronological order in which they were written.
Instead of boring you further, let me just invite you to go through the reviews, and select your next read.
The sun-browned land of sandstones in the heart of Mesopotamia, or an old English country house during Christmas? Which setting would you prefer for a murder? Well, you can have both.
Appointment With Death, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas Read More »
Four sleuths, four murderers, and a Mephistopheles at a party. Dinner is served. They get up and move into an adjacent room. The four murderers divide themselves into two pairs and play bridge together. The four sleuths do the same, in a smaller adjacent room where the second bridge table has been set up. The Mephistopheles decides to take a nap on a chair in front of the fire. A simple game of bridge turns dangerous, and the Mephistopheles is killed.
“Mr. Hercule Poirot – You fancy yourself, don’t you, at solving mysteries that are too difficult for our poor, thick-headed British Police? Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be. Perhaps you’ll find this nut too hard to crack. Look out for Andover, on the 21st of this month.
Yours, etc.,
A B C”
The case was as obscure as ever, save one factor. The only thing that tied all three murders together, was the complete lack of any motive.
Ten different people – ten complete, apparently random strangers – have received different letters. Some from old friends or acquaintances, or some as business propositions. But all containing the same address, and an invitation to come to soldier island. Therefore, Justice Wargrave, Vera Claythorne, Philip Lombard, Miss Emily Brent, General Macarthur, Dr. Armstrong, Anthony Marston, and Mr. Blore set off for their host’s house, on Soldier Island.
It is not very often, that someone announces that she is going to kill her husband, and that, too, in front of a world-famous detective…
Hercule Poirot: Lord Edgware Dies, Murder on the Orient Express Read More »
Hercule Poirot series: Black Coffee and Peril at End House – A review
Hercule Poirot: Black Coffee, Peril at End House Read More »
