![]() ![]() The characters are further developed than her first book but the mystery is maybe a little too developed. Why is the dead man wearing an overcoat that is too big for him? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse. Unlike the Mysterious Affair at Stykes, Murder on the Links provides a hint of the exotic locations that Agatha Christie later perfected in Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. The police think they've found the cumprit. There's no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon his embittered son, who would have killed for independence and his mistress, who refused to be ignored - and each felt deserving of the dead man's fortune. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Murder on the Links, by Agatha Christie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. Apparently, it seems that Renauld and his wife were victims of a failed break-in, resulting in Renauld's kidnapping and death. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound and gagged in her room. On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back. ![]() ![]() Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. ![]()
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