This book reads like a weird James Bond - Inspector Clouseau - Sherlock Holmes mashup. Does this make the book any better? No, it doesn´t. The Big Four is a bad novel and as the story progressed it became more and more ridiculous. I can´t necessarily complain about the characters as they are prett...
‘But Poirot— why?’ This is possibly the most appropriate quotation I can choose to describe the book. The Big Four has one of the silliest plots of Christie's books which is based on Poirot and Hastings engaging in international crime and espionage - much in the same way that Holmes and Watson d...
Grumpy reader is grumpy. Previously, I noted that I was in the process of rereading the Poirot canon. If they all sucked like this book sucked, I'd throw in the towel. Fortunately, The Big Four is a rare clunker by an author who usually provides a good read. I can't even explain this book. It in...
When I was growing up my best friend was obsessed with Agatha Christie. At his behest my other two besties and I read this book and quickly started referring to ourselves at the big four. Now many many years later, I really didn't remember anything about the book other than it being about a group of...
For me to be disappointed with an Agatha Christie novel is saying a lot. The Big Four is the fifth book in the Hercule Poirot series that Agatha Christie wrote. I finished with all of the Miss Marple books and hope to finish all of the Poirot books in the order they should be read by next year.This ...
This book was a huge disappointment especially since it was published immediately after the great book, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Christie appears to be making fun of both Poirot and Hastings throughout. It was choppy because it was originally a series of magazine articles. More of a bad James Bo...
From Goodreads: Hercule Poirot is preparing for a voyage to South America. Looming in the doorway of his bedroom is an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust and mud. The man's gaunt face registers Poirot for a moment, and then he collapses. The stranger recovers long enough to identify P...
Unlike most Christies this one has kind of a wacky plot. I'm still not sure how the fellow who was #4 got mixed up with the rest of them, given that he seemed to not move in the same circles. And he never seemed all that menacing to me. What made this one for me was the exploration of Poirot's & ...
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