The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

If Nero Wolfe and Watson teamed up to embarrass a Frenchified Sherlock Holmes, it might look a little like this. Wildly unlikely melodrama abounds, as in so much of Christie, but it's all good fun, despite the narrator being something of a stick.

Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are making their way through France when Poirot receives a frantic letter from Jack Renauld. When Poirot arrives, Renauld is already dead, and the list of suspects are endless. With a son who felt betrayed by his father's will, and a neighbor who has been connected to bloody murders in the past, it's up to Poirot and Hastings to solve the mystery.

awesome book...what a complex story....every character seems suspicious...

An excellent second book in the Hercule Poirot series. You can tell how the author has advanced as a writer. The characters are more developed and the personality of all really shine through. You get to know Poirot's personality a lot better and learn to appreciate more of his quirks and finds them very amusing. Lots of twist and turns which keeps you mentally stimulated through the whole...more

An excellent second book in the Hercule Poirot series. You can tell how the author has advanced as a writer. The characters are more developed and the personality of all really shine through. You get to know Poirot's personality a lot better and learn to appreciate more of his quirks and finds them very amusing. Lots of twist and turns which keeps you mentally stimulated through the whole reading.   hide