num_pages: 232
description: When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter 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, who will then be Victim C? More importantly, why is this happening?Often considered to be one of Agatha Christie's best.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.
language: English
title: The A.B.C. Murders
titlecomplete: The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
characters: Hercule Poirot, Mary Drower, George Earlsfield, Strange (The A.B.C. Murders), Roger Downes, Inspector Chrome, Mrs. Marbury, Donald Fraser, Thora Grey, Franklin Clarke, Megan Barnard, Alexander Bonaparte Cust, Arthur Hastings, Charlotte Clarke, Detective Chief Inspector James Japp, Franz Ascher, Millie Higley, Alice Ascher
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 156114
places: Bexhill, England, Andover, England, London, England, Doncaster, England, Churston, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers