One reviewer said it was "a baffler of the first water," while another remarked on Christie's ingenuity in the plot. Told from a friend and colleague of Poirot’s, Captain Hastings details the strange case of the ABC murders and how Poirot solves it. The novel was well received in the UK and the US when it was published. Agatha Christie’s murder mystery novel, The ABC Murders, follows Hercule Poirot, a detective working for Scotland Yard as he tries to solve a series of connected murders. This approach shows Christie's commitment to experimenting with point of view, famously exemplified by The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Murders is that the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator, Hastings. This approach was famously pioneered by Charles Dickens in Bleak House, and was tried by Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first- and third-person narrative. The book features the characters of Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. Murders is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 January 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
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