Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #35)
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast confessing that she is a murderer—and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl,...
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Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast confessing that she is a murderer—and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent, or insane.…
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062073761 (0062073761)
ASIN: 62073761
Publish date: June 14th 2011
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Murder Mystery,
Fiction
‘Did she say anything?’ ‘She said she had been into the bathroom to wash the blood off her hands—and then she said, “But you can’t wash things like that off, can you?”’ ‘Out, damnéd spot, in fact?’ ‘I cannot say that she reminded me particularly of Lady Macbeth. She was—how shall I put it?—perfec...
I actually did enjoy this one more the second time around, although I maintain that the puzzle aspect of the book is just not good. Before I get to that, though, I want to talk about what I liked. Ariadne Oliver is very prominent in this book, as is Miss Lemon, which were the two things that I jus...
"Third Girl" was a strange and dispiriting journey for me. At the start of the book, I was pleasantly surprised at the contemporary (1960's) feel of the novel. There was much more humour in it than I'd expected but there was also more violence and a deeper sense of threat than in other Poirot nove...
"Third Girl" was a strange and dispiriting journey for me.At the start of the book, I was pleasantly surprised at the contemporary (1960's) feel of the novel. There was much more humour in it than I'd expected but there was also more violence and a deeper sense of threat than in other Poirot novels ...
"Third Girl" was a strange and dispiriting journey for me.At the start of the book, I was pleasantly surprised at the contemporary (1960's) feel of the novel. There was much more humour in it than I'd expected but there was also more violence and a deeper sense of threat than in other Poirot novels ...
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