1936 Murders

Captain Arthur Hastings returns to narrate this account of a personal challenge made to “Mr. Clever Poirot” by a killer who identifies himself as “ABC” and who leaves the ABC Rail Guide next to his victims--apparently intending to work through the English country side (he has struck in Andover, Bexhill-on-sea, and Churston) and exercise Poirot along the way. Serializes in London's Daily Express, The ABC Murders became a cultural phenomenon as readers were invited to try to keep up with the famous Belgian detective. It is a challenge that remains fresh and thrilling to this day -- and makes the ABC Murders one of the absolute must-reads of the Christie canon.

I just loved the way the things change at the end but felt bad how a cunning fellow pushes these murders on an innocent mad man.... 

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