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Sinossi
Invitato a recarsi in Francia per proteggere un uomo minacciato da un pericolo ignoto, all'arrivo Poirot scopre che il suo cliente è già stato assassinato. E scopre anche che il crimine è stato compiuto seguendo lo stesso metodo di un assassinio di molti anni prima e che l'uomo ucciso, pur amando teneramente la moglie, era legato a una donnaaffascinante ed enigmatica. L'arrogante e iperattivo ispettore Giraud ha i suoi sospetti ma, come al solito, sarà Poirot a dire l'ultima parola.
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- Pagine: 224
- Data di uscita: 18-07-2018
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I thought this was going to be about a golfer getting murdered.SPOILER ALERT: It was not. This was actually one of the wilder rides that I've been on with Hastings and Hercule. Every time I thought we had the murderer in custody, there was another switcheroo and we were back to Poirot chuckling under Leggi tutto
Side Note: In August last year, I reached a personal milestone of 1,000 books read so far in this decade with the first of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. With this second novel in the Hercule Poirot series, I have reached another personal milestone: 1,000 e Leggi tutto
Agatha Christie's second Hercules Poirot novel isn't a smooth, confident trip of bloody fun to the inevitable solution satisfying the curious fan, her wobbly sea legs will walk down the decks looking straight ahead soon enough no need of endless dead ends to fool the fools but hurting the narrative
This plot is so complicated that I lost count of the number of times I lost count of its coups de théâtre . So layered ! At one point, when a first (second? Told you I lost count) solution is offered, Poirot says, “This is not a crime well ordered and regular, such as a detective delights in. [...] ah Leggi tutto
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