Agatha Christie (Queen Of Crime)- The ABC Murders[PDF] torrent

General Info





The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first

published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on January 6, 1936[1] and in the US by

Dodd, Mead and Company on February 14 of the same year[2]. The UK edition retailed

at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)[3] and the US edition at $2.00[2].

The book features the characters of Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief

Inspector Japp. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first and third-person

narrative. Christie had previously experimented with this approach (famously

pioneered by Charles Dickens in Bleak House), in her novel The Man in the Brown

Suit. What is unusual in The A.B.C. Murders is that the third-person narrative is

supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator, Hastings. This approach

shows

Christie\'s commitment to experimenting with point of view, famously exemplified by

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.






Plot


A serial killer is murdering apparently random people in order of their names:

first Alice Ascher of Andover, second Betty Barnard of Bexhill-on-Sea, third Sir

Carmichael Clarke of Churston. The killer sends a letter to Hercule Poirot before

each murder, telling him where and when each murder will take place, but Poirot and

the police always arrive too late. The killer signs himself \'ABC\' and at the place

of each murder, leaves an ABC Railway Guide next to the body.