description: There is a serial killer on the loose, murdering his victims in alphabetical order and leaving an ABC Railway Guide beside each body. The murderer is also playing a game with Hercule Poirot, alerting him in advance to the locations of the murders. But each time Poirot arrives it is already too late. Intrigued by the psychopath's mind and methodology, Poirot, with the help of Hastings and Japp, travels the through England-determined to track this ruthless killer down.
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: 156179
places: Doncaster, England, Andover, England, Bexhill, England, London, England, Churston, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Pan MacMillan