The Big Four by Agatha Christie [Review]

The Big Four (Hercule Poirot #5) by Agatha Christie
Format: ebook
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Date read: March 29, 2025

Hercule Poirot
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Murder on the Links
3. Poirot Investigates
4. The Murder of Roger Akroyd
5. The Big Four - Paperback | Kindle
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

Agatha Christie
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot's bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man stares for a moment, then he sways and falls. Who is he? Is he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what is the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper?

Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life—and that of his "twin brother"—to uncover the truth.

Thoughts on The Big Four: The inimitable Hercule Poirot is chasing his biggest case yet and the perpetrators keep slipping through everyone's fingers. Even his. Which doesn't sit well with the M. Poirot.

So he applies himself to finding connections between seemingly random crimes and the people involved in them. He uses his little gray cells to get into the minds of the people he's chasing and he slowly builds a picture of each of the members of the Big Four. Sort of. One of them remains frustratingly elusive and that vexes Poirot. Which means he doubles down and does whatever he needs to do to find the elusive number four.

A solid mystery with a group of criminals that nearly gets the best of Poirot. Nearly because he's, well, Hercule Poirot. And even a hive mind of bad guys can't stop him from finding justice. *thumbs up*