the Murder on Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Name: the Murder on Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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Bol A millionaire lies stabbed in an open grave beside a half built golf course.Paul Renauld wrote to Hercule Poirot from a small resort on the northern French coast to say that he was in danger and begged him to come at once. Poirot and Captain Hastings crossed the Channel and arrived a few hours too late. Renauld's wife describes two masked men who entered the villa at two in the morning, tied her up and took her husband away. Before long a second body appears on the property, apparently killed with the same weapon.The corpse in the bunker is not what makes this novel remarkable. What makes it remarkable is the argument that begins the moment Paris sends down its own man.Monsieur Giraud of the Sûreté is young, celebrated and modern. He crawls over the ground on all fours, collects a matchstick, a cigarette end and a length of lead piping, and builds a theory from them. He also knows exactly who Poirot is: a name from the old days, a man whose methods have been overtaken, and he says so, politely at first and then not politely at all. Poirot, close to sixty and years retired from the Belgian police, watches him work and declines to dirty his knees. He wants to know why a wealthy man should want a spade, why a wristwatch runs two hours fast, and which earlier case this one resembles.Agatha Christie's third novel is not simply a story about a detective who notices things. It is a quarrel between two theories of detection, the scientific one that reads the ground and the psychological one that reads the people standing on it, and Giraud is given real evidence and a coherent case of his own. It is also the most French book Christie ever wrote, drawn from a Paris cause célèbre and shaped in answer to Gaston Leroux, and the novel in which she quietly rebuilt the series by marrying Hastings off and sending him to Argentina.This Svarog Books edition presents the complete 1923 text with black and white illustrations, a new introduction on the novel's sources and its argument about method, and a biographical essay covering Christie's childhood in Torquay, the wartime dispensary, the two marriages, the eleven days of 1926 and the archaeological seasons in Iraq and Syria. The supporting material is written so that nothing reveals the solution. The Murder on the Links plays fair, and it is worth playing without help.

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A millionaire lies stabbed in an open grave beside a half built golf course.Paul Renauld wrote to Hercule Poirot from a small resort on the northern French coast to say that he was in danger and begged him to come at once. Poirot and Captain Hastings crossed the Channel and arrived a few hours too late. Renauld's wife describes two masked men who entered the villa at two in the morning, tied her up and took her husband away. Before long a second body appears on the property, apparently killed with the same weapon.The corpse in the bunker is not what makes this novel remarkable. What makes it remarkable is the argument that begins the moment Paris sends down its own man.Monsieur Giraud of the Sûreté is young, celebrated and modern. He crawls over the ground on all fours, collects a matchstick, a cigarette end and a length of lead piping, and builds a theory from them. He also knows exactly who Poirot is: a name from the old days, a man whose methods have been overtaken, and he says so, politely at first and then not politely at all. Poirot, close to sixty and years retired from the Belgian police, watches him work and declines to dirty his knees. He wants to know why a wealthy man should want a spade, why a wristwatch runs two hours fast, and which earlier case this one resembles.Agatha Christie's third novel is not simply a story about a detective who notices things. It is a quarrel between two theories of detection, the scientific one that reads the ground and the psychological one that reads the people standing on it, and Giraud is given real evidence and a coherent case of his own. It is also the most French book Christie ever wrote, drawn from a Paris cause célèbre and shaped in answer to Gaston Leroux, and the novel in which she quietly rebuilt the series by marrying Hastings off and sending him to Argentina.This Svarog Books edition presents the complete 1923 text with black and white illustrations, a new introduction on the novel's sources and its argument about method, and a biographical essay covering Christie's childhood in Torquay, the wartime dispensary, the two marriages, the eleven days of 1926 and the archaeological seasons in Iraq and Syria. The supporting material is written so that nothing reveals the solution. The Murder on the Links plays fair, and it is worth playing without help.

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