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One Strangling.
One Stabbing.
The ABC Murders
A serial killer is on the loose, murdering his victims in alphabetical order, leaving an ABC Railway Guide beside each body... and playing a dangerous game with Hercule Poirot. He alerts Poirot in advance of the locations of the murders, but Poirot always arrives too late. Intrigued by the psychopath’s mind and methodology Poirot, with the help of Hastings and Japp, travels the length and breadth of England - determined to track down this ruthless killer before he strikes again.Year: 1936
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: In a country house
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: In a country house
Cast of characters
Hercule Poirot, Captain Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp. Also: Colonel Anderson, Alice and Franz Ascher, Mr. Ball, Mr. & Mrs. Barnard, Elizabeth and Megan Barnard, Nurse Capstick, Sir Carmichael and Lady Charlotte Clarke, Franklin Clarke, Inspector Crome, Alexander Bonaparte Cust, Deveril, Roger Emmanuel Downes, Mary Drower, George Earlsfield, Donald Fraser, Thora Grey, Tom Hartigan, Milly Higley, Commissionaire Jameson, Dr. Kerr, Sir Lionel, Dr. ThompsonPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1936 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London and by Dodd, Mead & Co. New York. Films: Made into a film named 'The Alphabet Murders' in 1966, starring Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot. TV: Adapted for television in 1992 by LWT in Britain with David Suchet as Poirot, and also shown on PBS in the US.Notes and reviews
Chapter 3 of this novel contains the bare bones of the plot for 'Cards On The Table': Poirot describes his idea of the ideal crime.Murder methods:
One Blow to the Head.One Strangling.
One Stabbing.
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