The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2)

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A millionaire dies One can see by his face that he was stabbed in the back said Poirot.But the strangest feature of the case was where they found the body in an open grave Hercule Poirot had answered an appeal for help but he was too late MURDER bizarre and baffling had come to the Villa Genevieve. Best Read [ The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) ] author [ Agatha Christie ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Shut up Hastings Shut up, shut up, shut up.This plot is so complicated that I lost count of the number of times I lost count of its coups de th tre So layered At one point, when a first second Told you I lost count solution is offered, Poirot says, This is not a crime well ordered and regular, such as a detective delights in ah, indeed, what or...The Murder on the Links A RetrospectiveIt was almost fifty years ago I read my first Agatha Christie novel I was fourteen I bought it at a middle school book fair It was an Hercule Poirot mystery, The Big Four, a Dell paperback that sold for.45 A bargain at the price My First Poirot Through the coming years I read all of the Poirot novels A few of the Miss Marples Miss Marple just didn t grab me as Poirot and his friend Hastings did As far as Tommy and Tuppence, well, I could do wit The Murder on the Links A RetrospectiveIt was almost fifty years ago I read my first Agatha Christie novel I was fourteen I bought it at a middle school book fair It was an Hercule Poirot mystery, The Big Four, a Dell paperback that sold for.45 A bargain at the price My First Poirot Through the coming years I read all of the Poirot novels A few of the Miss Marples Miss Marple just didn t grab me as Poirot and his friend Hastings did As far as Tommy and Tuppence, well, I could do without them The stand alones did nothing for me, other than And Then There Were None, The Mousetrap A Play, and The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories which I considered an absolute masterpiece Christie first wrote this as a short story, then the play, which became the blockbuster movie In retrospect, I probably didn t get all of the nuances of Dame Christie s work at age fourteen Poirot s use of French phrases drove me...Really enjoyed this one Had no idea about who was the culprit.,,This is the second major case for Poirot, following on from The Mysterious Affair of Styles For some reason I had never read this one perhaps the link with golf put me off when I was younger and beginning to read Christie s novels However, the link with golf is tenuous and it is, thankfully, hard to imagine Poirot wishing to indulge in sporting activities The story begins with Hastings meeting a young woman on a train on his way back to London He barely arrives before Poirot receives a l This is the second major case for Poirot, following on from The Mysterious Affair of Styles For some reason I had never read this one perhaps the link with golf put me off when I was younger and beginning to read Christie s...Well what can I say, I have just added this to my favourites and given it 5 stars, so erm it was good Ok that was understatement, I really really enjoyed this Astonishingly I have never read this before, nor do I remember the Suchet TV version, so it was a great experience to read a Poirot not knowing the answers.As always with Christie the characterisation was fantastic I find it very difficult to believe this was only the 2nd Poirot book as it was so mature Poirot was excellent and th Well what can I say, I have just added this to my favourites and given it 5 stars, so erm it was good Ok that was understatement, I really really enjoyed this Astonishingly I have never read this before, nor do I remember the Suchet TV version, so it was a great experience to read a Poirot not knowing the answers.As always with Christie the characterisation was fantastic I find it very difficult to believe this was only the 2nd Poirot book as it was so mature Poirot was excellent and this was proba...The second Hercule Poirot novel To explain its plot accurately would take half an hour and a whiteboard, but briefly the Belgian detective and his aide Hastings are summoned to the house of M Renauld, a millionaire who fears for his life They arrive too late, finding him already dead, half buried in an unfinished golf bunker, supposedly at the hands of bearded foreign thugs, and possibly at the hands of a jilted lover But Poirot soon unearths not one, but two of the principals are living un The second Hercule Poirot novel To explain its plot accurately would take half an hour and a whiteboard, but briefly the Belgian detective and his aide Hastings are summoned to the house of M Renauld, a millionaire who fears for his life They arrive too late, finding him already dead, half buried in an unfinished golf bunker, supposedly at the hands of bearded foreign thugs, and possibly at the hands of a jilted lover But Poirot soon unearths not one, but two of the principals are living under assumed names and have criminal pasts, while the jilted lover may not have belonged to M Renauld at all, and then another corpse pops up.I enjoyed this book quite a bit, as I did its predecessor Christie puts so much charm and wit into her tortuous,...Two people rarely see the same thing Another enjoyable Christie This one is quite confusing with a lot of seemingly nonsensical elements I did get a few clues right can t help myself trying but nothing else This is partly due to the author not sharing all the data Naturally, once all is revealed and explained, it made perfect sense.Another aspect that was highly entertaining was seeing Poirot compete with the French inspector Not only was this funny can t believe Poirot restrained himsTwo people rarely see the same thing Another enjoyable Christie This one is quite confusing with a lot of seemingly nonsensical elements I did get a few clues ...

The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2)
  • English
  • 16 February 2017
  • Paperback
  • 232 pages
  • 0425067947
  • Agatha Christie
  • The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2)