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This has never been one of my favourite Poirots, not because of Poirot himself, who is as amusing as ever, but because Hastings is even more gormless than usual & there were no other particularly likeable characters. I really didn't care who was had up for murder in the end.
There is, however, a sweetness in meeting Hastings' auburn-haired girl for the first time: the woman who took him to South America, & whom he returned without many years later. I do miss him when he is gone.
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There is, however, a sweetness in meeting Hastings' auburn-haired girl for the first time: the woman who took him to South America, & whom he returned without many years later. I do miss him when he is gone.
The usual convolut ...more
Apr 10, 2023
Cora
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Poirot receives a letter from a gentleman in France asking for his assistance because he believes his life to be in danger. When Poirot arrives, it is too late because the man had been murdered. Poirot now must discover who killed him. This was a fun mystery and I like how Christie uses Hastings as a proxy for the reader as Poirot tries to guide him to solve the mystery without telling him the answers. I felt like I got to know both Poirot and Hastings more in this book than in the first one in
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Jul 10, 2018
Marie (UK)
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Poirot's little grey cells carry him quickly to the solution of this case. We have to wait a little longer for him to explain the detail. Talk about love triangles they are many more sides to the romance in this book
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3.5 stars - review to come
Jul 28, 2009
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
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