Monsieur Giraud of the Sûreté leads the police investigation, and resents Poirot's involvement. Upon inspecting his body, Eloise collapses with grief at seeing her dead husband. His wife, Eloise Renauld, claims masked men broke into the villa at 2 am, tied her up, and took her husband away with them. When they arrive, local police greet them with the news that Renauld was found dead that morning, stabbed in the back with a knife and left in a newly dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.
Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help. Remarking on Poirot, still a new character, one reviewer said he was "a pleasant contrast to most of his lurid competitors and one even suspects a touch of satire in him." Reviews when it was published compared Mrs Christie favourably to Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. parcelling off Hastings to wedded bliss in the Argentine." The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development "greatly desired on Agatha's part. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6), and the US edition at $1.75. It is the second novel featuring Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923, and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May of the same year. But as the clues gets progressively more complex, it will be a link to a similar cold case that helps Poirot catch the backstabber. Monsieur Giraud of the Sûreté believes he has the investigation well in hand and doesn’t need assistance from Poirot.
Arthur Hastings, intends to find out who put him there.įatally stabbed in the back with a letter opener, millionaire Paul Renauld leaves behind a widow who claims two masked men tied her up and abducted her husband. The man who summoned him from London to Merlinville-sur-Mer is the man who now lies in the ground, and the great Belgian detective, along with his companion, Capt. Instead of a hole in one, Poirot finds one in a hole-a body in a shallow grave next to a golf course. Hercule Poirot’s second appearance is “a remarkably good detective story” as the Belgian sleuth must determine who left a corpse on a golf course ( The New York Times Book Review).Īfter introducing Hercule Poirot in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Christie brought him back three years later in 1923 for this “ingenious” murder mystery set in France ( The New York Times Book Review).
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