The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot Series)

by Agatha Christie, Mallory (DM) (Editor)

Overview

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. Was the anonymous note a brilliant challenge or a crackpot hoax? The answer is as loud and clear as a woman's scream—precisely that of Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover bludgeoned to death on the job. Next to her corpse, a clue that's as simple as ABC. Alphabetically speaking, the master Belgian sleuth suspects it's now a matter of one down, twenty-five to go...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062573223
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/04/2016
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	759,972
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(d)
Lexile:	740L (what's this?)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

What People are Saying About This

Julian Symons

A masterwork...stunningly original.

Editorial Reviews

A baffler of the first water.

New York Times Book Review

Agatha Christie at her best.

New York Herald Tribune

These are the initial eight volumes in what will grow to 24 over two years in Black Dog's new "Agatha Christie Collection." The books are all decent-quality hardcovers for a bargain price. If you're regularly replacing your Christies, gives these more durable editions a try. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

An entirely original idea.” — Daily Telegraph (London)

“Mrs. Christie has invented an entirely new plot for a detective story—a difficult thing in these days; she is to be congratulated on the perfection of her invention.” — The Times (London)

“Her best yet. Where does she get hold of these brilliant notions?” — Bristol Evening Post

“There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie.” — Sunday Times (London)

From the Publisher

Her best yet. Where does she get hold of these brilliant notions?

Bristol Evening Post

There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie.

Sunday Times (London)

An entirely original idea.

Daily Telegraph (London)

Mrs. Christie has invented an entirely new plot for a detective story—a difficult thing in these days; she is to be congratulated on the perfection of her invention.

The Times (London)

Hugh Fraser will be familiar to listeners from the excellent PBS “Mystery” adaptations of Hercule Poirot novels in which he played the intrepid Hastings. Consequently, he makes a wonderful narrator here. These Audio Editions Mysteries cannot be recommended highly enough for quality of material and great performances at affordable prices. In this complicated maze of a mystery, people are dying in alphabetical order. Poirot knows there must be a method to this madness and digs deep to uncover a motive. Fraser is perfection itself at painting the tiny portraits of diverse individuals. Christie ties the whole canvas together to tell a complete story. To enter a world she has created is to escape your own for at least awhile, and, as is the case with any great vacation, you’ll be longing for the next time you can get away . . . with murder. D.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

FEB/MAR 04 - AudioFile

Hugh Fraser will be familiar to listeners from the excellent PBS “Mystery” adaptations of Hercule Poirot novels in which he played the intrepid Hastings. Consequently, he makes a wonderful narrator here. These Audio Editions Mysteries cannot be recommended highly enough for quality of material and great performances at affordable prices. In this complicated maze of a mystery, people are dying in alphabetical order. Poirot knows there must be a method to this madness and digs deep to uncover a motive. Fraser is perfection itself at painting the tiny portraits of diverse individuals. Christie ties the whole canvas together to tell a complete story. To enter a world she has created is to escape your own for at least awhile, and, as is the case with any great vacation, you’ll be longing for the next time you can get away . . . with murder. D.G. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

FEB/ MAR 04 - AudioFile