The ABC Murders (Poirot)
A killer is working methodically through Britain, one town at a time, in strict alphabetical order. It's a grim sort of pattern, and the murderer leaves a calling card to make sure nobody misses it: a copy of the ABC Railway Guide, opened to the page bearing the name of each victim's location. Andover first, then Bexhill, then Churston. Neat, cold, almost taunting. The police seem a step behind at every turn, and the body count keeps rising. Then the killer makes one fateful miscalculation: he writes directly to Hercule Poirot, inviting the little Belgian detective to try and stop him. It's a move born of arrogance, and it may well prove his undoing. Christie keeps the tension coiled tight throughout, and the central puzzle is genuinely perplexing, the kind that makes you second-guess your own assumptions right up to the final reveal. A clever, quietly unsettling mystery that shows exactly why Poirot remains one of fiction's most compelling detectives.
- Author: Agatha Christie
- Publisher: Harper Collins
- Genre: Science Fiction
- ISBN: 978-0007527533
- Pages: 288 pages