Murder in the Mews: Four Cases of Hercule Poirot
How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the...
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How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the beautiful Valentine Chantry flee for her life from the holiday island of Rhodes? Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases— each a miniature classic of characterization, incident, and suspense.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062073990 (0062073990)
ASIN: 62073990
Publish date: September 27th 2011
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Murder in the Mews comprises of four short stories / novellas, a format which I normally struggle with. But I really liked the majority of these stories, despite the last one called "Triangle at Rhodes". I found that one quite boring. My favorite story "Dead Man´s Mirror" was also the longest one in...
I actually listened to all but the last story, Triangle at Rhodes. Overall: Murder in the Mews: This is a novella length Poirot story, which I listened to on a 2 hour drive that extended to 3 hours because of some traffic delays. It held my attention, and has an interesting twist at the end. The m...
I was rather surprised, if not disappointed, to learn only after I started reading Murder in the Mews, that this book in the Poirot series in fact consists out of four totally independent stories. Even for Agatha Christie I would say that four mysteries in less than 350 pages is a bit of a stretch.A...
That odd, little foreigner with the strange mustache Hercule Poirot is at it again!In Murder in the Mews, a collection of shorts, Poirot's razor-sharp mind is pitted against such stumpers as a suicide/murder conundrum, a deadly love triangle, and a case of important papers gone missing. Originally ...
Now, that's it. That's a good Poirot's stories. I was beginning to get nervous about the average stories I was reading.Four tales, novellas - all of them with Poirot in the centerpiece. Murder in the Mews The dead of a woman in her own house. Did she kill herself or was killed. I really enjoy the en...
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