num_pages: 180
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: Hercule Poirot, George Earlsfield, Arthur Hastings, Thora Grey, Alexander Bonaparte Cust, Megan Barnard, Mrs. Marbury, Franklin Clarke, Mary Drower, Charlotte Clarke, Detective Chief Inspector James Japp, Donald Fraser, Franz Ascher, Strange (The A.B.C. Murders), Alice Ascher, Millie Higley, Roger Downes, Inspector Chrome
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 156205
places: Bexhill, England, London, England, Churston, England, Andover, England, Doncaster, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Pocket Books