The Monogram Murders
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
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3.7 • 46 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
"Equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging. Reading The Monogram Murders was like returning to a favorite room of a long-lost home" -Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl
Since the publication of her first novel in 1920, more than two billion copies of Agatha Christie’s books have been sold around the globe. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha’s most beloved creation, Hercule Poirot.
‘I’m a dead woman, or I shall be soon…’
Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified – but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.
Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim...
Customer Reviews
Enjoyable
I have read all Hercule Poirot books. This one fits in well. Lots of twists, possible too many but still enjoyable. You have a hard act to follow Sophie, but you are off to a good start.
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
I was skeptical at first as with most people when I heard that Hercule Poirot was being brought back to life. But as I started to read the novel I found myself forgetting that it wasn't even written by Agatha Christie! Sophie Hannah did a tremendous job in capturing the Belgian detective's qualities and quirks. When the mystery was being revealed towards the end I found myself at the edge of my seat just as I was when I first read The Mysterious Affair at Styles and even Curtain.