num_pages: 336
description: Who wouldn't be pleased to attend a small dinner party being held by Sir Charles Cartwright, once the leading star of the London stage? At his "Crow's Nest" home in Loomouth, Cornwall.Unfortunately, thirteen guests arrived at the actor's house, most unlucky. One of them was a vicar. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison -- just as Hercule Poirot, also in attendance, had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive!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: Three Act Tragedy
titlecomplete: Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot, #11)
characters: The matron, Muriel Wills, Mr. Satterthwaite (Dead Man's Mirror), Ellen Terry (Three Act Tragedy), Hercule Poirot, Coronel Johnson, Mrs Babbington, Hermione Lytton Gore, A woman at Harverton County Asylum, Angela Sutcliffe, Sir Jocelyn Campbell, Lady Mary Lytton Gore, Dr. MacDougal, Robert Burns (Three Act Tragedy), Reverend Stephen Babbington, Lady Macbeth (Three Act Tragedy), Cynthia Dacres, Violet Milray, Aristide Duval, Dr Bartholomew Strange, Margaret De Rushbridger, Doris Sims, John Ellis, Sir Charles Cartwright, Oliver Manders, Servants at Melfort Abbey, Miss Temple (Three Act Tragedy), Superintendent Crossfield, Captain Dacres
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 36496
places: England, London, England, Monte Carlo, Cornwall, England, Monaco
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Berkley