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Thursday, September 10, 2015

The A.B.C Murders by Agatha Christie-Protagonist

The A.B.C murders is a very mysterious novel by Agatha Christie. She has written lots of other books but this is one of her most famous ones. This book has 228 pages and I am on page 31.


The protagonist in the book I am reading is none other than the infamous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. I have read many books that include him in it and he is simply a complete genius. He includes every detail in his theories and cases. And he somehow keeps track of them and includes them in explanations of the murderers in other books. He is not the kind of detective that looks at fingerprints and the changes in a room but rather the way all of the suspects are acting. His appearance is a very round egg-shaped head, a thin mustache(which he is very proud of), a short and round body and very mysterious-like green eyes. 


 Hercule Poirot is sitting in a chair in his flat in London in the year of 1935 and an old friend comes in. Poirot's mascot, Captain Hastings had come to visit. Poirot had gotten a letter a couple of days earlier about a threat to him. Someone by the initials A.B.C was going to murder someone. And true enough the day after, an old lady was murdered. Her name was Mrs. Ascher. She owned a little shop that sold old newspapers and tobacco. Her divorced husband, Franz Ascher, a german, had been suspected to have killed her because he always came into her shop to threaten to beat her and all that violent stuff. Now Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard, Captain Hastings, and Hercule Poirot must find the clues to who the murderer really is.


I think the murderer is Franz Ascher because he yelled at the police and at Poirot when he was told he was a suspect. And he threatened to kill her and beat her(which I have already mentioned). 

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