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, indeed, what order or method is there in that?”and I pretty much agreed with him. I was appalled. I disliked that solution so much, it made so little sense, that I thought it was the worst of all of...

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 35 :- OCT 20213.5 STARS

Really enjoyed this one! Had no idea about who was the culprit.

How fun to spend a few hours with my first favorite detective and his charming, if not slightly befuddled, sidekick. How I managed to miss this one is beyond me, but I really enjoyed reading this early Poirot. Certainly Ms Christie fine tuned her characters as the series continued, but I was not surprised that Hercule’s mustaches were an early sartorial priority for our “egg-shaped’ friend. Slightly melodramatic, Christie threw a lot of tropes in here including some slightly complicated, double

I was much more impressed by this one when I first read it in my impressionable teenage self 25 years ago. Did this translation of Murder on the Links pass muster on any level?For one, I really appreciated the character of Giraud. He was the main source of delight in the entire book. The latter, however, was too romantic in its structure.Hastings gets the girl, Poirot gets the plaudits and pockets 500 francs, and Jack Renauld, a character of solely this book, gets his love and inherits millions....

I enjoyed this adaptation by L.A. Theatre Works even if my brain could not process the new developments fast enough. It's only 1 hour, 38 minutes of listening time, so things move quickly. I might try the full-length audiobook, but this may also be one I should read instead of listen to so I can pause and have time to consider each reveal made by Poirot. I did enjoy hearing familiar actors (Simon Helberg, Adhir Kalyan) voice characters so different from their more famous comedic roles. I will wa...

The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2), Agatha Christie The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923, and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. Hercule Poirot and

Hercule Poirot was bored complaining about modern criminals not able to commit a crime to make his famous grey cells work. At this moment he received a letter from a South American millionaire living in France stating that his life was in danger and beseeching Poirot to come to the rescue. Poirot felt something out of the ordinary was going on and decided to go to France accompanied by his clueless sidekick Captain Hastings. Upon arrival they realized that they were late as the body of the milli...

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is a 1923 publication. Poirot has been frantically summoned to France by Monsieur Paul Renauld. Unfortunately, upon arrival, Hastings and Poirot are informed they have arrived too late and Renauld is dead… murdered as it so happens. Pitted against a younger and equally confident detective, Poirot is determined to meet his competition head on, utilizing his advantage of experience to solve the crime.This is the second Poirot by Agatha Christie and is on

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 eBook reads on my eReader. One thing I can already see: since I bought my first eReader, I have definitely been reading more books than ever before – and that is definitely a good thing! (PS – my readi...

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 Hasting and Hercule. Every time I thought we had the murderer in custody, there was another switcheroo and we were back to Poirot chuckling under his breath and making everyone feel like an ass.Honestly, all you need to know about the plot is that it is completely bananas.But I totally dug the entire thing and thought it was a really refreshing...

It's early days for Poirot, who I love. A fun murder mystery full of twists and turns that only he can solve.

Women’s history month is fast approaching, and I could not resist to start my annual reading women authors in March a few days early. Between denser reads I enjoy reading mysteries as a palette cleanser. This keeps my brain sharp and keeps me from falling into a reading rut. I find almost no better way to honor women’s history month than to read the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. Nearly every mystery writer of today can trace their influences back to Dame Christie, and each of her cases adds a...

“The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.” I am an old Poirot fan but I read Agatha Christie's books such a long time ago that I can't even remember which ones I read and which ones I didn't. So I decided to re-read the whole series from the first one, and I am enjoying this so much! I loved this second novel, much more than the first. The mystery is intriguing and Poirot is telling us of his little gray cells for the first time! What a pivotal moment ahah. Such a f...

The Murder on the Links is an early detective mystery by Agatha Christie. Originally, it had been published as a four-part monthly serial in a magazine between December 1922 and March 1923, under the title of “The Girl with the Anxious Eyes”, before it was issued in book form by The Bodley Head in May 1923. It is the second novel to feature everyone’s favourite Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot:“Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green wh...