4/30 Mystery Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders, The world Publishing Company, 1945. pp. 306. 1. Captain Arthur Hastings: Mr. Hastings was a friend and an accomplice to Hercule Poirot in solving the case of the A.B.C. murders. Hercule Poirot: He was the main detective and investigator in the A.B.C. murders. He is a very intelligent and intellectual person. Mary Drower, Megan Banard, Donald Fraser, Franklin Clarke and Miss Grey: These were all close friends or family, and they were all
The ABC Murders Recently, I started reading a series of books written by Agatha Christie. This particular book was called the ABC Murders. The book was set in England, the main character being a man by the name of Hercule Poirot. He is a world famous Belgian detective. The plot is centered around a series of murders that take place in different towns beginning with specific letters. For example, the first murder occurred in Andover and the name of the woman murdered was Alice Ascher, thus the next
books are similar. The overall message about Agatha Christie is that she writes her books based on what she knows. Cathy Luzmore, author of Agatha Christie’s Influences on her Writings, concludes, “These travels inspired not only Murder on the Orient Express, but also Murder in Mesopotamia, Death on the Nile, Death Comes as the End and Appointment with Death.” With two of the three books in this paper, she gets her ideas about where the books will take place from her own travels. The third book, The