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I enjoyed this one more than I have many of Christie's later mysteries. The story is silly, of course, but it's lively and kept me guessing with its many red herrings. I love having Mrs. Oliver and Poirot team up again, and it's also pleasant to see Poirot's vulnerable side (and his matchmaker side). I admire Christie's ability to just stop a book at the end, much as I admire people who can end a phone call without a long goodbye.

@wideeyedreader and I read this for our June mother daughter murder mystery book club. I liked it and actually figured out part of what was going on. 😂

While not my favorite Poirot, this was really unique and I was lost as to the solution for the entire book! Picked by @AmyK1 for our mother-daughter murder mystery book club this month!
Feat. Goblin, who really wanted to be in the picture. #catsoflitsy

3✨ thought it was interesting that this girl comes up to Poirot saying she committed a murder. Then tells him he‘s too old. I wasn‘t as engaged as I would have liked to be, but I figured out what was happening and was surprised at who it was. I feel like only Poirot can figure out who the murderer is in his stories. This makes him all the more amazing.

Poirot is approached by a girl who admits she thinks she murdered someone, but disappears before he gets any more info. He must track her down without her name or any idea of who was killed. Ariadne Oliver comes along for the ride in this one which was fun. Although some circumstances seemed coincidental overall this was an interesting mystery to solve.
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Loved this Christie. So funny to hear all the talk about the “dirty artists”, you could definitely tell it was from the 60s. she handled it in more of a funny, c/m charming way and wasn‘t ugly about it-Poirot was getting kinder in his old age. This one held up, really enjoyed it and great on #audio. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

This Hercule Poirot story is a low pick for me. It's not among my favourite Agatha Christie works, but it does have some very surprising twists and it features Ariadne Oliver, a character that I always enjoy.

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I enjoyed this story a little more than the previous two, mainly because Poirot is in it from the beginning & Ariadne Oliver is always a great character. A slow book, this spends a lot time on the characters, no murder for most of the book. I also didn‘t guess the ending at all on this one.

A young woman confesses that she thinks she may have committed a murder, then vanishes, leaving Christie's legendary sleuth Poirot desperate to find her and to figure out just exactly how one could not know whether they were a killer or not.

This was a little slower than some of Christie's other tales, but is good nonetheless. This slow burner presents a complex mystery where reality is subjective and not everything is as it seems.

Not one of the better Poirot mysteries, IMO, but I did like the presence of Ariadne Oliver and Hugh Fraser's audiobook narration.

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"Everyone must have heard about Hercule Poirot" - the little grey cells assert

My final book of 2019 was this Agatha Christie. A good mystery but not one of her best in my opinion. The wrap up of the loose ends took a couple of unnecessary steps that made me cringe a little.

Background for this photo is a swan plant in full bloom. My dad gets a ton of monarch butterflies on these plants every summer 🐛🐛🦋🦋🦋

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I‘m reading by whim at the moment from my shelves - I‘ve already got my book pile ready for my holiday the following week, I‘m kind of ignoring my 2020 list of books until then!

Part way through an Agatha Christie novel and the Tudor Christmas book and then I think I‘ll dive into Olive Kitteridge and maybe start Pachinko. #bookseveryoneelsebutmehasread

Not a favourite of AC but doable. Quite confusing especially when Poirot was trying to decipher his thoughts to conclude the mystery. In the end, it‘s an unexpected outcome 😅

Spotted this lovely little Christie at the library book sale and dropped everything to read it. Yass Queen! 👸🏼 (or should I say Dame?) That amazing twist at the end! #mystery #classicmystery #anglophilesoflitsy #poirot #agathachristie

@jenniferw88 the paperbacks here are the 125th anniversary editions with the photographic covers. The facsimile editions are these cute vintage looking hardbacks like Halloween Party. ☺️👌🏻#achristieswapisannounced

Happened by the Portland library, found their Friends of the Library sale and a couple of gems. #bookhaul #Portland

I got to go to one of the most amazing bookstores today in Venice, Libreria Acqua Alta! Because of previous flooding, the owner has the books in bathtubs and gondolas and stacked up to the ceiling. It‘s incredible! The perfect way to spend my last day in Italy.

#OldCoolBooks #day14 #Whodunit The queen of the whodunit is definitely Dame Agatha.Her main characters Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple have been the inspiration for so many writers since.She‘s in Guinness World Records as the bestselling author of all time, over 2 Billion copies sold & her play The Mousetrap is the longest running play in history. These books are my editions of Christie Crime Collection from the 80s. I‘m still hunting for more🕵🏻‍♀️

Gifts from a friend! I love this edition of Third Girl and that Poirot bookmark is so much gorgeous! I guess I‘d better share with the #JaneAustenSwap tag that I‘ve got this book too now, in my JA collection! 😅 #janeausten #Poirot #agathachristie #christieclub #agathachristieclub #janeite #austenite #maidensofmurder #bookhaul

Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. Technically not a "couple" couple, and I believe that Oliver only appears in a handful of books, but I really enjoy them as a team that I wish Christie had written a whole subseries of books about them ?️‍♂️?️‍♀️

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1. Cheese 🎂 cake. 2. Heartland 🐴. 3. STEM Learning 📖. 4. About a month. 📆. #friyayintro

Today is a perfect day for eating bonbons and reading about murder. My Agatha Christie binge continues with this most 60s of stories, full of mods, drugs, beatniks and Beatles-- and Hercule Poirot, of course!

#day2 #backtoreading #followtheclues A little #shelfie dedicated to the Queen of following the clues.... Dame Agatha rocks! 💕

Coloring while spending time with Poirot!

Library Book Sale finds.

"What can I hope?" Well, one could always hope. He could hope that those excellent brains of his, so much better than anybody else's, would come up sooner or later with an answer to a problem which he felt uneasily that he did not really understand.

No pirates, but there are #skullandcrossedbones !

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Enjoyable cozy mystery. Kind of fun to read a '60s Christie mystery.

Here are a few of my books with #girlinthetitle. I found an article about why so many books have girl in the title and it explained that it potentially "hints at a vulnerability that raises the stakes" (www.motto.time.com/4551310/girl-book-titles/) #readjanuary

By far my favorite find at my library's book sale today ! It's a first edition, too 😍 #agathachristie

TBT to my 2ndhand old crime collection Agatha Christie set. She was the first ever 'adult' crime writer I read when I was a child, I still break them out and reread on a regular basis. Her and Arthur Conan Doyle were my intro to a lifelong love of crime & mystery.🕵🏻🔪🔫