num_pages: 344
description: When Alice Ascher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already on to the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one down, twenty-five to go.There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover; and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill; then who will Victim C be?
language: English
title: The ABC murders
titlecomplete: The ABC murders
characters: Alexander Bonaparte Cust, Alice Ascher, Millie Higley, Charlotte Clarke, Arthur Hastings, Detective Chief Inspector James Japp, Megan Barnard, George Earlsfield, Roger Downes, Inspector Chrome, Hercule Poirot, Franz Ascher, Donald Fraser, Franklin Clarke, Strange (The A.B.C. Murders), Mary Drower, Thora Grey, Mrs. Marbury
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 156120
places: Doncaster, England, Andover, England, Bexhill, England, London, England, Churston, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Ulverscroft