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Murder Mysteries: Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie

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The clues undoubtedly lead us to the fact that Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case is a humdinger of a mystery novel. It is certainly among Christie’s best. More than 20 odd years post their first appearance at Styles (The Mysterious Affair at Styles) –  Poirot and Hastings reunite in literary convenience at Styles – which is … Read more

Murder Mysteries: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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Unlike the sense of occasion that Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes work A Study in Scarlet has in the way Watson’s narration reveals to us a detective with (literally) superhuman powers of deduction, Hercule Poirot is treated as any other character. All Holmes lacks is a superman cape, in contrast Poirot is as human … Read more