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You submitted the following rating and review. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them. Item s unavailable for purchase. Please review your cart. I love Agatha Christie. I purchased the Kindle edition of every novel of hers that was available, and it has been a delight. This one, however, stumps me terribly.
I don't understand it.
The motive for the murder is completely different. Large sections of the story are changed or deleted. The titles of a number of Agatha Christie's books and short stories were changed once or more between the British and American versions. This book has had at least two different titles: Short story anthologies varied depending on when and where they were published.
Editorial Reviews. Review. “There has never been, and probably never will be, a P.I. more fun Three Act Tragedy: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot series Book 11) - Kindle edition by Agatha Christie. Download it once and read it on. Three Act Tragedy: A Hercule Poirot Mystery and millions of other books are available for instant access. Kindle | Book 11 of 43 in the Hercule Poirot Series .
But I have seen no record of the entire plot of one of her novels being rewritten between versions. It is very disconcerting!
And it ruins the book. In its book form, this is a good, solid Agatha Christie with a lot of originality especially regarding motive. The new motive is much weaker than the original, and a lot of significant text is either removed or no longer makes sense. Perhaps this is a relatively unknown or early version of the book Was this change a decision by Kindle editors? And why was the reader not warned that this is not an original Christie? If anyone knows the answer, I would love to find out! Good Poirot book overall, though not the best. Notes for the "connaisseurs" of Poirots: Hasting is not in this book, and this is one of these investigations where Poirot is taking a step back to let other characters taking the lead of the investigation or so it seems, as eventually Poirot is the only one who will figure out everything at the end My main criticism is this: I also get the feeling that this one was not one of the most demanding case for Poirot to solve, though you'll learn at the end that it could actually have ended up pretty badly for him I will say no more.
On the positive it is well paced with some interesting and colourful characters. I consider my self an expert on Agatha Christie, as I have been reading and rereading her books for over 40 years and let me tell you, they changed the ending of this story completely!!
Also, they omitted a lot of the original story to make the new ending fit!! Who ever is doing this to her stories should be shot!! Agatha Christie was a brilliant writer and changing her original stories is blasphemy!! Keeps you guessing till the last page Christie is always a great escape from TV reruns or banal new programs And with a Kindle you don't even need the lights on. One person found this helpful. It was fun to watch Poirot teach the wannabes how to be detectives, especially with one of them the murderer. I liked the story and semi-surprise ending. I didn't like the person Mrs.
Christie chose to be the murderer. I have read almost every one of her books. They are my favorite detectives. There are a few characters in her other stories that I like very much. I loved the twist at the end when Hercule points out the details that all the other 'detectives' overlooked. Unfortunately, we don't get to find out how he discovered all the links in the days before googling someone became possible. This book was different from most of the others in the Poirot series.
For one, no Hastings. I know a few other books are also missing Hastings but for most of those books, there is a Hastings-like sidekick. We have 3 sidekicks in this book, which throws off the chemistry a lot. Most recent customer reviews. Published 12 months ago. Published 1 year ago.
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