For one thing, the story is told through a combination of first-person narrative and third-person narrative.
It feels very different to the majority of her works. The ABC Murders is often included on lists of the best Agatha Christie novels and it’s easy to see why. Can Poirot figure out the puzzle before the killer gets to D? The next murders are waitress Betty Barnard on the beach at Bexhill and Sir Carmichael Clarke at his home in Churston. Alongside the body, the police find a copy of the ABC Rail Guide, which Poirot sees as an obvious link to his letter writer. On the day in question, Alice Ascher is killed in her tobacco shop in Andover. The first letter informs Poirot that a crime will be committed soon.
He does so now because he starts to receive letters from the killer announcing his crimes in advance. This isn’t the first time that Hercule has been convinced to come out of retirement to track down a killer. Thankfully retired detective, Hercule Poirot is on hand to help solve the case with his old friends Colonel Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. The killer doesn’t even choose the same method to murder them all. When the bodies start appearing, it looks as though the only thing the deceased have in common is that they were killed. Except, it seems, ABC in Agatha Christie’s mystery. Whether it’s a shared trait, something in their history, or a gender issue, serial killers take care to pick the right person to kill. They generally don’t pick their victims at random and will have a reason for everything they do. The thing about serial killers is that they tend to be formulaic. I’m renewed and ready to get a few more books off my TBR this month. Regardless of the reason, as soon as I was finished, I felt much better about life and reading. Not that it isn’t glorious reading it yourself but there’s something about an audiobook that just enhances the cosiness. It’s always glorious listening to a Christie audiobook. I listened as I took my week’s Instagram photos and went about my general weekend business. On Sunday I stuck on the audiobook version of this novel and didn’t turn it off until the end. After taking a long time to read Monsters, I knew that I had to do something drastic to get me back into reading. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Agatha Christie is a sure-fire way to cure your bookish blues.
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