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The ABC Murders

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Christopher Bollen

Perhaps no novel is quite as clever in plot as this Poirot classic. Christie loved puzzles, nursery rhymes, and maddeningly childlike patterns—case in point, victims seemingly being selecting according to the first letter of their names. I often wonder what she would have made of the Zodiac killer with all those puzzles and ciphers. The ABC Murders is that kind of novel galore, and we also get a lot of Poirot bon-mots and investigative legwork.

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