Murders, 1936 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936 13) Cards on the Table, 1936 14) Dumb Witness, 1937 and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937.
Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926 4) The Big Four, 1927 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928 6) Peril at End House, 1932 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935 11) The A.B.C. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd-the man she had planned to marry-is murdered. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal. The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. I have already broken my self imposed rule of not re reading any until I had read them all, I had to shut myself in a darkened room and re read MOTOE after watching Ken's sorry film, so I have decided to re read Ackroyd in the next couple of months.Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's greatest, and also most controversial mysteries, 'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd' breaks the rules of traditional mystery. Also, I assume it was a translation he was using, but he did explicitly state he had read the book several times.
I must say whilst watching the documentary I thought exactly that, it was a self publicity stunt for the documentary maker, who is a French theatre director who was staging the work as a play. I am working my way through all Poirot novels in the order of publication, getting through about 4 or 5 a year and am currently reading Dead Mans Folly, just to give you an idea of quite how long ago it was. Dr Sheppard, it was quite some time ago that I read it.
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