Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie [Review]

Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot #11) by Agatha Christie
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: January 27, 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
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 - Paperback | Kindle
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):

Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison.

Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he can find absolutely no motive for murder.…

Thoughts on Three Act Tragedy: It's been a while since I read this book and I absolutely did NOT remember the specifics of who did the deed. (This happens. It's a thing.) My lack of remembrance basically made it feel like I was reading it for the first time. Which is awesome. *thumbs up*

Anywho. Hercule Point is his usually deeply intelligent self, although he didn't originally see what happened as a crime. Until, you know, he did. But once he DID, he stepped up and did that thing Poirot does.

Which is to say he followed the clues and looked at every minuscule detail until the big picture revealed itself in his mind. And once it did? Poirot took the picture and laid out the happenings in his usual pragmatic way.

Bottom line: Christie isn't considered a master for no reason. These books hold up (even after a 2nd reading) and are so dang much fun!