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  • Primo romanzo di Agatha Christie, in cui Poirot fa il suo debutto in grande stile. Un capolavoro nel suo genere! La Christie concepisce e sviluppa magistralmente una trama molto intricata, in cui la psicologia dei personaggi è fondamentale, ogni minimo dettaglio è importante per ricomporre il puzzle ... Continue

    Primo romanzo di Agatha Christie, in cui Poirot fa il suo debutto in grande stile. Un capolavoro nel suo genere! La Christie concepisce e sviluppa magistralmente una trama molto intricata, in cui la psicologia dei personaggi è fondamentale, ogni minimo dettaglio è importante per ricomporre il puzzle e non una virgola è lasciata al caso.
    Stupendo!

    

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  • Hard to believe this is her Majesty's first book. Even harder to believe that this books was rejected 5 times before it was being published officially. Obviously the publisher that time were not ready to welcome the Golden Age Detective (GAD) era.

    This book introduced the famous detective, He ... Continue

    Hard to believe this is her Majesty's first book. Even harder to believe that this books was rejected 5 times before it was being published officially. Obviously the publisher that time were not ready to welcome the Golden Age Detective (GAD) era.

    This book introduced the famous detective, Hercule Poirot. He was a retired Belgian police officer, this would make his age at least 67 according to Christie's biographer - Charles Osborne.

    Anyway, I was surprised to see that the narrator, Hasting already knew Poirot even before this fist case. I thought they came to know each other only in this case. They just bumped up to each other as Hasting was the guest of Styles and Poirot was some sort of refugee that stayed somewhere nearby.

    The murderer is not difficult to guess. Somehow we shouldn't "guess" the identity of the murderer but have to use our grey cell to deduce based on the clue. Christie is very generous with clues in this book. In fact, he clues are over abundant and over-whelming. I have to reread the books twice even after the last chapter to see where Christie placed the clues.

    Regardless you are (or your are not) Christie's fan, don't miss this book.

    Rating : 4 stars.

    

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  • Poirot non può che superarsi ogni volta.
    Bella storia.
    Ed è fantastico il suo modo di ragionare (le benedette cellule grigie), tutto sta nel metodo (sante parole).
    Adorabile quel lato del suo carattere un po' superbo e saccente...ma in fondo è un gran romanticone...mi chiedo com'è ch ... Continue

    Poirot non può che superarsi ogni volta.
    Bella storia.
    Ed è fantastico il suo modo di ragionare (le benedette cellule grigie), tutto sta nel metodo (sante parole).
    Adorabile quel lato del suo carattere un po' superbo e saccente...ma in fondo è un gran romanticone...mi chiedo com'è che sia single..

    

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  • Non c'è niente di meglio di un giallo per curare l'influenza (#4)

    

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This first mystery by Dame Agatha Christie introduces dapper, brilliant Hercule Poirot. Retired as the Chief of Belgian police, he is summoned to a magnificent country estate to solve a murder. The victim: a wealthy heiress. The suspects: her fortune-hunting husband, her jealous relatives, her hired companion. The solution: a deadly scheme that is revealed by the master detective himself. Named a 1996 "Best Mystery Audio" by Publishers Weekly, this complete and unabridged edition is read by David Suchet, the distinguished British actor recognized as Poirot from the PBS-TV Mystery Theater. 5 cassettes.

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