One of my all-time favorite mysteries!

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	• ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Agatha Christie Collection) Agatha Christie Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2006 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 83 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

good read

I'm new to Agatha Christie stories, and I like this one a lot.
Well written, keeps my interest throughout.
I recommend this book, as a good read for a weekend.

One of my all-time favorite mysteries!

Poirot is setting off on one of his most baffling and frightening cases ever. A madman has challenged him to a duel - a duel of murderer versus detective. Periodically, the killer will send a letter to Poirot telling him when and where he will murder his next villain, and then it is up to the great detective to stop him. He's going to work his way through the alphabet, beginning with Alice Ascher of Andover, and only Poirot can stop him...if, indeed, anyone can!

I must say, this is my all-time favorite Poirot mystery, and one of my all-time favorite mysteries period! I loved the way Ms. Christie hid the true motive for the murders, and how she kept me wondering just how Poirot would pull it off. There's red-herrings and complications, lies and misunderstandings, all of which keep you well off-guard. And, just when you think it's over, it isn't. I think that this is a great mystery, one that is sure to please any mystery fan!

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The A.B.C murders

When I started this book I thought it was going to be a long summer. However as I got through the book it became extremely interesting. Although it was hard, and the vocabulary was difficult it was a great book.
It start's out with a well renowned detective called Hercule Poirot. He and his friend, Hastings, enjoy solving mysteries together. One day a letter comes in the mail forewarning the murder of a person in Andover. It was mysteriously signed by A.B.C. Sure enough some one dies in Andover. Alice Asher is the first victim to fall to A.B.C's cunning and brutal tactics. A person is apprehended and assumed the killer or the A.B.C. Alexander Bonaparte Cust is his name, everyone believes he is the killer but Poirot is not as quick to assume that.
This book is not for people with a small vocabulary. At some points the characters use French or Latin, I am not sure but still as confusing. The story line was great at first you don't have a clue to what is going on, but as the book progresses you start to understand the characters and who may be the murderers.
All in all this is a great book, but as I said before is a hard to book to comprehend. I recommend this book to anyone who likes Agatha christen or mystery novels.

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Not Free SF Reader

Bump 'em off in order, see if I don't then.

The murderer in this case sends one Hercule Poirot advance notice in the form of letters of what he intends to do, and it seems he is perhaps loopy enough to have come from Arkham.

His string of killings follows the alphabet by place and by name of the deceased.

Poirot will strain his grey matter to work this one out.

3 out of 5

ABC Murders

I did read most of the reviews, but no one mention the Chapter 23 , "September 11th" and the very first sentence. " I shall, I think, remember that 11th September all my life".
I am sure we all will remember this day, but Agatha Christie picket this day and comment in 1936. She was an amazing lady, mistery of the finest.

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Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirot?s most challenging cases yet.

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