Talk:The A.B.C. Murders

message: I'm sorry that I've had to reverse the changes that you made but I did so for the following reasons:
1) Your new summary does not improve the understanding of the book in any notable way. It also neglects the detail of a key feature of the story in that it doesn't name the alphabeticised victims or their places of residence. It also makes errors such as "A madman is killing people in Europe." The action of the story clearly takes place in the UK.
2) There are no links in your summary. Links are not essential in Wikipedia but they do indicate well-researched pages.
3) I'm sorry to have to say this but your spelling and grammar are not up to standard. Sentences such as "He Kills in order of the alphabet" and "The next murder doesn't happen and a man walks into the police station and told the police that he did the crimes" which changes tense in mid-sentence, are good examples. It also doesn't help when you name the detective as "Hurcule Poriot".--Jtomlin1uk (talk) 09:21, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reversed changes

message: Is there some reason why this article is titled "The A.B.C. Murders", when the photo of the book's cover clearly reads "The ABC Murders"?
Aya T C 20:05, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally agree with you. As you can see below, I just posted the same thing. I hate OCD grammar folks who think they are so above everyone that they even correct authors! If no one else objects in one week, I will fix it myself. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 21:14, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typography 

message: The title is ABC Murders NOT A.B.C. Murders and because of this, the page name is even wrong. I move that this page should be retitled properly. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 21:12, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I am planning on moving the article, the first thing you gave is the second edition, the first is the one pictured in the article. If the original book, and the website call it 'The ABC Murders' then that is the name it should have. Thanks, Matty.007 08:30, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

text: For the above stated reasons. The original edition (UK) was, as pictured in the article, 'The ABC Murders', and as stated above, the official website calls it the same. If anything, there is no argument for keeping it where it is. Matty.007 15:23, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not agree with you. The American editions are title with the periods, as is the "6th impression" of the first printing from Crime Club in the UK (the link says it is first edition, how do you get to decree otherwise?). The audio book uses the periods. You seem deaf to other facts, and current printings of the novel in its many forms. The title arises from the man set up as the suspect, with notes signed A. B. C. The train guide kept up a theme. This seems a petty reason to move the article.  --Prairieplant (talk) 16:08, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I would vote to change it to "The ABC Murders" as per the 1st UK edition. It was published first in the UK and the author was British. To clear up a couple of points above: If the Crime Club edition was published in 1939 (see other comments above), when the novel was first published in 1936, then it was presumably only the first edition of the Crime Club version, not the overall first edition. Secondly, publishers have also been messing with the text, so that doesn't necessarily indicate the correct title for this article. In my much later (Fontana, 1973) version, most of the notes are signed "A B C.". Brian Hardy 54 (talk) 19:22, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

text: Just for info, almost all of the 1936 UK newspaper references (reviews, publisher publicity, etc) to the book that I could find use "A.B.C." or "A B C" (i.e. with clear spacing between each letter). The only use of "ABC" is the The Era which briefly reported that the film rights to the book had been sold. 82.12.192.171 (talk) 22:21, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the title A.B.C. when it's not? 

message: I fixed the names up a bit. Alphabetically by first name is never a good idea, especially when first names are seldom used in the book. Christie is very formal in her writing. I reordered it in order of surname and reformatted it the way Wikipedia numbers bullets. Also the writing of the plot is very weird. It leaps into the third murder without any rhyme nor reason. Though I don't like it's "draft" like look now, at least it'll be less confusing to the reader. Feel free to rewrite that part if you wish, just be sure to start where the book starts, please. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 22:23, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot beginning and names 

message: The Tony Randall film isn’t the first adaptation, although it may be the first screen adaptation (can’t say for certain); the novel was adapted for radio in 1943, for the series “Suspense!” in the U.S. It’s notable for two things: it features Charles Laughton (the first person to play Hercule Poirot on stage) as Alexander Bonaparte Cust, and more importantly removes Hercule Poirot entirely from the proceedings! I can’t say that this is definitively the first adaptation, but it certainly predates the Randall picture. Jock123 (talk) 11:06, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Jock123, if you have the sources for that radio adaptation, why not put it in the article?Prairieplant (talk) 09:41, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First adaptation…? 

message: A new Poirot Adventure game is coming out this year.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NRiqaj9mcw0
http://www.agathachristie.com/news/article/the-abc-murders-the-adventure-game-based-on-agatha
Don't worry the American ascent is only for the Trailer not Poirot's voice.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.3.111.122 (talk) 21:11, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Game 

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replies: text: This is the original article on The ABC Murders.  --Prairieplant (talk) 17:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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