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However, while it has a wonderful setup and opening, the novel is weighed down by a series of awkward coincidences and a heavily expository info dump of a conclusion. The premise, as with all of the best Agatha Christie novels, is tight and simple: at a dinner party, a woman drops dead from poisoning.

Mrs Lancaster cryptically says to Tuppence: “Was it your poor child? There behind the fireplace.” A chilling question. Murder on the Orient Expressis easily Agatha Christie’s most famous novel. Whether or not it’s her most celebrated is up for debate but it’s definitely the one everyone knows. The Body in the Library opens with a lot of questions: Who is the woman? Who killed her and why? And why was her body left in someone else’s home? This is why Endless Night was unanimously placed at number two on the list of Agatha Christie books ranked by everyone who helped put this list together.

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When Carla turned twenty-one, she was given a note from her mother, who died in prison, declaring her innocence (despite the fact that she confessed to the crime in court all those years ago). What makes Endless Night so unique is that it’s not really a murder mystery novel. It’s a piece of gothic fiction. This is Agatha Christie going full gothic, and it’s incredible. One newton-metre is the torque resulting from a force of one newton applied perpendicularly to the end of a moment arm that is one metre long. The fact that it’s not one of the very best Agatha Christie novels shows just how strong of a writer she is, when this novel is still so good.

Told from the perspective of Poirot’s long-term friend and confidante, Hastings, who is visiting from his new home in South America, The ABC Murders begins with Poirot having received a taunting typewritten letter. On the same day, Mike meets a young American girl; the rich heiress to a great American business and fortune. We begin with Tommy and Tuppence visiting Tommy’s aunt Ada in a retirement home. There, Tuppence meets a strange woman named Mrs Lancaster.The murder was that of Carla’s father, and it happened on a day when several people were gathered at his home.