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Agatha christie a.b.c.murders3/31/2024 Poirot was convinced that one or possibly all of the relatives ‘ knows something that they do not know they know.’ And indeed that was so. The only thing that seems to link them is that they were killed by the same person and that in each case there is a person who be the obvious suspect as the murderer if it hadn’t been for the ABC murderer. The police are completely puzzled and Poirot gets the victims’ relatives together to see what links if any can be found. So the first murder is in Andover, the victim a Mrs Alice Ascher the second in Bexhill, where Betty Barnard was murdered and then Sir Carmichael Clarke in Churston is found dead. An ABC Railway is left next to each of the bodies. What follows is a series of murders advertised in advance by letters to Poirot, and signed by an anonymous ‘ABC’. I thought that was interesting and it alerted me to read those chapters carefully. It’s narrated by Captain Hastings, for the most part, interspersed by chapters written in the third person, which Hastings assures us are accurate and have been ‘vetted’ by Poirot himself. The ABC Murders was first published in 1936. My copy is in a compilation volume along with Why Didn’t They Ask Evans.
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