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    The A.B.C. MurdersBook by Agatha Christie
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    The A.B.C. Murders - Wikipedia

    Plot

    Returning from South America, Arthur Hastings meets with his old friend, Hercule Poirot, at his new flat in London. Poirot … See more

    Characters

    • Hercule Poirot – Renowned Belgian detective, involved in investigating the serial killings by A.B.C., due to letters received from him.
    • Captain Arthur Hastings – Poirot's old friend and companion on the case. He i… See more

    Original titleThe ABC Murders
    Originally publishedJanuary 6, 1936
    AuthorAgatha Christie
    SeriesHercule Poirot

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    Literary significance and reception

    The Times Literary Supplement on 11 January 1936 concluded, with a note of admiration for the plot that, "If Mrs Christie ever deserts fiction for crime, she will be very dangerous: no one but Poirot will catch her." … See more

    References to other works

    In Chapter 1, Poirot alludes to a situation in the 1935 novel, Three Act Tragedy. In the same chapter, Poirot mentions his failed attempt at retirement to grow vegetable marrows as depicted in The Murder of Roger Ackr… See more

    References in other works

    The plot of The A.B.C. Murders is mentioned by Detective Inspector John Appleby in Michael Innes′ novel Appleby's End (1945).
    Chapters 393–397 of Gosho Aoyama's manga… See more

    Film, TV and other adaptations

    The first adaptation of the novel was the 1965 film The Alphabet Murders with Tony Randall as Hercule Poirot, a version far more comic than mysterious.
    The story of the 2012 Malayalam film Grandmaster written … See more

    Publication history

    • 1936, Collins Crime Club (London), 6 January 1936, hardcover, 256 pp
    • 1936, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 14 February 1936, hardcover, 306 pp
    • 1941, Pocket Books (New York), paperback (Pocket nu… See more

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