num_pages: 352
description: "Mr. Hercule Poirot--you fancy yourself, don't you, at solving mysteries that are too difficult for our poor thick-headed British police? Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be." Was the anonymous note a brilliant challenge or a crackpot hoax? The answer is as loud and clear as a woman's scream--precisely that of Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover bludgeoned to death on the job. Next to her corpse, a clue that's as simple as ABC. Alphabetically speaking, the master Belgian sleuth suspects it's now a matter of one down, twenty-five to go...
language: English
title: The ABC Murders (Digest Size)
titlecomplete: The ABC Murders (Digest Size) (Hercule Poirot)
characters: Franklin Clarke, Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Millie Higley, Charlotte Clarke, Mary Drower, Donald Fraser, Roger Downes, Alexander Bonaparte Cust, Alice Ascher, Thora Grey, Strange (The A.B.C. Murders), George Earlsfield, Inspector Chrome, Detective Chief Inspector James Japp, Mrs. Marbury, Megan Barnard, Franz Ascher
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook
ratings_count: 156199
places: Andover, England, Doncaster, England, London, England, Churston, England, Bexhill, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Berkley