Poirot receives a letter from France asking for his help. It was translated to English in 2007 and published by Harper Collins. The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot)Riopapa User Review - Riopapa. The novel was filmed for television with David Suchet as Poirot in 1996 and in 2003 the graphic novel adaptation was published in France by Emmanuel Proust editions. John Moffatt starred as Poirot in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of 1990. He says of the real case of the serial wife-killer George Joseph Smith: 'he obeyed the common dictates of human nature, arguing that what had once succeeded would succeed again, and he paid the penalty of his lack of originality.' Poirot arrives in France to find his client brutally murdered and lying face down in a shallow grave on a golf course.

Poirot is in his element on this case, revealing that human nature is always repetitive. Based on Agatha Christie’s thrilling mystery, Murder on the Links features famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and his friend Captain Hastings. The plot has peculiar complications and the reader will have to be very astute indeed if he guesses who the criminal is until the last complexity has been unravelled.Īs Laura Thompson writes in her biography of Christie's life, Murder on the Links was 'very French.' Agatha Christie had always been influenced by French crime writers (specifically, Gaston Leroux, author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera) and this story shows some marked differences in tone and style from the novels published on either side of it.

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