Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie [Review]

The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) by Agatha Christie
Format: ebook
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Date read: January 30, 2025

Hercule Poirot
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Murder on the Links - Paperback | Kindle
3. Poirot Investigates
4. The Murder of Roger Akroyd
5. The Big Four
6. The Mystery of the Blue Train
7. Black Coffee
8. Peril at End House
9. Lord Edgeware Dies
10. Murder on the Orient Express
11. Three Act Tragedy
12. Death in the Clouds
13. The ABC Murders
14. Murder in Mesopotamia
15. Cards on the Table
16. Dead Man's Mirror
17. Dumb Witness
18. Death on the Nile
19. Appointment with Death
20. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
21. Sad Cypress
22. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
23. Evil Under the Sun
24. Five Little Pigs
25. The Hollow
26. The Labors of Hercules
27. Taken at the Flood
28. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
29. After the Funeral
30. Hickory Dickory Dock
31. Dead Man's Folly
32. Cat Among the Pigeons
33. Double Sin and Other Stories
34. The Clocks
35. Third Girl
36. Hallowe'en Party
37. Elephants Can Remember
38. Curtain

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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's brilliant detective, returns to find his would-be employer murdered, too many suspects, and the detective directing the local police investigation ignoring his polished investigative technique. The two butt heads compete to solve the case until a second body is discovered, murdered in the same manner as the first.

Poirot's razor-sharp perception and in-depth knowledge of criminal history are required to connect both murders as he successfully works toward an unanticipated conclusion.

Thoughts on The Murder on the Links: This time around, the mystery Poirot is brought in to investigate is...sticky. Mostly because the murder he ends up investigating is for the man who requested his help in the first place. Which isn't to say Poirot didn't do his job, but rather that the man in question had already expired by the time Poirot got to his home.

Which means Poirot felt an obligation to figure out the whys and hows since he was too late to help initially.

To make things even more interesting, a local detective is dismissive of all of Poirot's observations and has his own ideas about who did the deed. And he's willing to dismiss any evidence that doesn't support who he think did it.

Complicated family dynamics (on more than one level), old crimes coming back to haunt those who committed them, a twisted (but well thought out) plan, romantic entanglements, and Poirot in the middle of it all putting together the pieces to find justice.