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      The A.B.C. Murders

      by Agatha Christie
      Published
      Jan 1936
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      Hercule Poirot Mysteries Book 13

      About This Book

      "Mr. Hercule Poirot -- you fancy yourself, don't you, at solving mysteries that are too difficult for our poor thick-headed British police? Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be."

      Was the anonymous note a brilliant challenge or a crackpot hoax?

      The answer is as loud and clear as a woman's scream--precisely that of Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover bludgeoned to death on the job. Next to her corpse, a clue that's as simple as ABC.

      Alphabetically speaking, the master Belgian sleuth suspects it's now a matter of one down, twenty-five to go...

      Series Placement

      Book 13
      🟡 Mostly Standalone
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      Suspense

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      Mystery Private Investigator

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