There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and …
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There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. And as a macabre calling card he leaves beside each victim's corpe the ABC Railway Guide open at the name of the town where the murder has taken place. Having begun with Andover, Bexhill and then Churston, there seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until he makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans.--goodreads
The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as "A.B.C.". The book was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 January 1936, sold for seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while a US edition, published by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year, was priced $2.00.
The form of the novel is unusual, combining first-person narrative and third-person narrative. This approach was previously used by Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit. In The A.B.C. Murders the third-person narrative is supposedly reconstructed by the first-person narrator of the story, Arthur Hastings.
The novel was well received in the UK and the US when it was published. One reviewer said it was "a baffler of the first water," while another remarked on Christie's ingenuity in the plot] A reviewer in 1990 said it was "a classic, still fresh story, beautifully worked out."--Wikipedia
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- 16322
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The A.B.C. Murders
Paperback, 180 pages
English language
Published March 6, 1941 by Pocket Books (div. of Simon & Schuster, Inc.).
- ISBN:
- 978-0-671-80521-0Copied ISBN!
Os crimes ABC
21.4 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 258 pages
português language
Published March 31, 2015 by Nova Fronteira.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-209-4010-5Copied ISBN!
Abc Murders
Paperback, 224 pages
Published Aug. 5, 1996 by Harpercollins Uk.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-649872-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 59635283
Abc contre Poirot, nouvelle édition
Mass Market Paperback, 379 pages
French language
Published Jan. 2, 2003 by Hachette Jeunesse.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-01-322082-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 401742043
The A.B.C. Murders
Hardcover, 252 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1936 by Collins Crime Club.
- OCLC Number:
- 5517690
Die Morde des Herrn ABC.
Paperback, 192 pages
German language
Published Jan. 1, 1997 by Scherz.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-502-51617-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 75835751
ABC Murders
Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2006 by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-57912-624-7Copied ISBN!
- GoodReads:
- 16322
A.B.C. contre Poirot
mass market paperback, 255 pages
French language
Published Jan. 6, 1950 by Librairie des Champs-Elysees., Librairie des Champs-Elysées.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7024-1356-2Copied ISBN!
A.B.C. contre Poirot
Mass Market Paperback, 220 pages
French language
Published Feb. 17, 1993 by Librairie des Champs-Elysées.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7024-2324-0Copied ISBN!
ABC Murders (Agatha Christie Audio Mystery)
Audio cassette
English language
Published Nov. 2, 2003 by Audio Renaissance.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55927-937-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 53783286
The ABC Murders
Paperback, 236 pages
English language
Published Oct. 3, 1982 by Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-671-46477-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 7412695
ABC Contre Poirot
Mass Market Paperback
French language
Published Dec. 7, 1984 by Livre de Poche.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-253-00927-6Copied ISBN!
The A.B.C. Murders
Audio Cassette
Published Jan. 1, 1998 by ISIS Publishing.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-85695-471-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 173193425
The A.B.C. murders
295 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2011 by Center Point Pub..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-61173-161-3Copied ISBN!
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