Just reread Murder In Three Acts. I had completely forgotten everything about it. I LOVED IT! One of my favorites. I would rank it in my Tier 2 of favorites. Tier 1 being the famous - 10 Little Indians, Death on the Nile, Orient Express. Poirot was not in it as much as I would have liked, but his role is charming. I especially love the last sentence in the book!
LucyGLemon - probably is - maybe I was mistaken on the title - don't have my NOOK in front of me. It starts at a cocktail party put on by a famous actor. A Mr. Satterwaithe (sp?) is kind of the main character/somewhat narrator. The girl in the story is called Egg.
@Tommy_A_Jones, the title refers to something Poriot says. It's how he describes himself - being a detective searching for the murderer is like setting the cat among the pigeons. He stalks, he watches, he follows one and then another - all the time playing with them, a deadly game, knowing that one of them will be his prey. And Poirot really is catlike. Sometimes he says that he's the good dog, once set on a track, he never lets go.
@Tommy_A_Jones, the title refers to something Poriot says. It's how he describes himself - being a detective searching for the murderer is like setting the cat among the pigeons. He stalks, he watches, he follows one and then another - all the time playing with them, a deadly game, knowing that one of them will be his prey. And Poirot really is catlike. Sometimes he says that he's the good dog, once set on a track, he never lets go.
I always thought the "cat" was the murderer among the "pigeons" who were the young schoolgirls.
@anne.clough.3, I think you're right: the HarperCollins book cover says "The school is thrown into chaos when the 'cat' strikes again." Obviously, the 'cat' being the murderer... I suppose, I was thinking of p. 103 in Mrs. McGintry's Dead: "One walks with the dogs and the guns... That is like us. It is not only one bird we put up...We must make very sure, cher ami, which is our bird."
Thanks, I always thought the imagery of the title was to show that this was a group of "innocents" or "pigeons" who had been infiltrated by someone who would kill them, "the cat".
I thought it was very applicable to the ruthless killer who was in the midst of the schoolgirls.
I just finished reading The Labors of Hercules and I haven't bought more because here they're really expensive and its hard to come across an Agatha Christie book
I'm now reading "Sad Cypress", because it's the book of the month :-) I read it in Dutch because I'm from Belgium just like Hercule Poirot ;-) The novel is called: "Schuldig in eigen ogen"
@silvana, do you think that being from Belgium helps you understand and appreciate H. Poirot? [unrelated to this topic, I know, but after Silvana wrote that, I just HAD to ask!] Or do you feel that AC didn't really know that much about Belgiums - just like Ariadne Oliver kept saying that people would write to correct her about her Flemish detective...
@shifra.shomron I appreciate Poirot for his " belgian little grey cells". He's proud to be a Belgian, he often says" I'm belgian!!" when people think of ask if he's french. I recognize that ! Belgian people are proud :-) I myself live in the Flemish region of Belgium and speaks dutch and a little bit french, Poirot must have been born in the french speaking part of Belgium, because he only speaks french( and english of course) not dutch.
Oh, and yes he's a proud belgian, he likes chocalates!!( me too :-)
But, honestly, we have a lot of detectives here in Belgium like Mr James Japp who could use someone like Hercule Poirot ;-)
@silvana, yes - for breakfast he has cocoa and eclairs, and he drinks sirops. So he definitely has a sweet tooth! And in England that sort of breakfast must have seemed so weird - instead of having bacon, eggs, toast, kippers. He's always surprised when George brings out beer or whiskey for his guests - he doesn't even know he has it in his house!
@shifra.shomron ...and I've never seen or read in the novels that Hercule Poirot eat french fries neither drinks beer although we belgian people like beer, french fries and chocolates very much ! :-) Maybe he will in the new novel written by Mrs Hannah?
Just reread The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Such an incredible and cleverly written book! As I already knew the killer, it almost seems obvious during my reread, but they are so many tricks and turns and such a myriad of "smaller" mysteries entwined within the plot, that I can see why so many people were shocked by the ending! I consider it one of her best writes.
Currently reading my third straight Christie Mystery - I'll give you a hint...it involves a very famous train, a snow drift, and a funny little man with an awesome 'stash.
I just last night finished Hickory Dickory Dock. I had forgotten "who dunit," since the last time I read this one. So I wasn't sure until the very end. It's a good one. Now I'm on to After the Funeral. I like this story, and the 1960s movie version, although the movie made it a Miss Marple story. Which is a thoroughly enjoyable movie, but I do think it's weird that anyone would have the nerve to make such a major change to an Agatha Christie story. Looking forward to reading it with Poirot as the detective.
I love the book and The MR film too, Insome ways think it is better than the Suchet version, I prefer this book to Hickory Dickory Dock although it is nice to have Miss Lemon rather than Japp or Hastings
At the moment I am reading 'One, Two, Buckle My Shoe' for the first time. It's really intriguing and I'm having great fun stretching my little grey cells trying to discover the murderer
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I suppose, I was thinking of p. 103 in Mrs. McGintry's Dead: "One walks with the dogs and the guns... That is like us. It is not only one bird we put up...We must make very sure, cher ami, which is our bird."
Thanks, I always thought the imagery of the title was to show that this was a group of "innocents" or "pigeons" who had been infiltrated by someone who would kill them, "the cat".
I thought it was very applicable to the ruthless killer who was in the midst of the schoolgirls.
Or do you feel that AC didn't really know that much about Belgiums - just like Ariadne Oliver kept saying that people would write to correct her about her Flemish detective...
I just last night finished Hickory Dickory Dock. I had forgotten "who dunit," since the last time I read this one. So I wasn't sure until the very end. It's a good one. Now I'm on to After the Funeral. I like this story, and the 1960s movie version, although the movie made it a Miss Marple story. Which is a thoroughly enjoyable movie, but I do think it's weird that anyone would have the nerve to make such a major change to an Agatha Christie story. Looking forward to reading it with Poirot as the detective.