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    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders"
    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders"
    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders"
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    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders"

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    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535834872
    A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders"

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      A Study Guide for Agatha Christie's "The A.B.C. Murders" - Gale

      09

      The A.B.C. Murders

      Agatha Christie

      1936

      Introduction

      The A.B.C. Murders, first published in 1936, is considered one of Agatha Christie's more popular novels. The story features Inspector Hercule Poirot, a famed Belgian detective who lives in London and has an ego almost as big as his reputation. As the story opens in 1935 London, readers find Poirot perplexed by an anonymous letter sent to mock his reputation. The writer of the letter tells Poirot where he will commit a murder and taunts Poirot to find him before he accomplishes the feat. Poirot gets there too late to prevent the murder and while sorting through the clues receives a second letter, in which the anonymous writer announces that a new murder is to be carried out. Poirot rushes to prevent the second murder, but again he is too late. So the sequence continues as the murderer keeps producing new victims, from Mrs. Ascher in Andover to Miss Barnard in Bexhill and on down the alphabetical line.

      Readers follow Poirot through his investigations as Christie builds up the tension. The path to the climax runs along a twisting plotline that turns as sharply as a narrow mountain road. Finally, Poirot announces his stunning conclusion, and readers find that the character who seemed most guilty is not the killer at all. Not until the closing chapters does Poirot explain who the real culprit is, a total surprise to the other characters of the story as well as to the reading audience. A new hardcover edition of this novel was published in 2006.

      Author Biography

      One of the world's best-known murder-mystery writers, Agatha Christie began her life in Torquay, in Devon, England, on September 15, 1890. She was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller to Frederick Alvah Miller, a well-to-do American stockbroker, and Clarissa Boehmer, who was the daughter of a British army captain. Christie had two older siblings, her sister, Madge, and her brother, Monty.

      The author married Colonel Archibald Christie in 1914, when she was twenty-four. Five years later, in 1919, she gave birth to her only child, Rosaline. In 1926, Christie's husband told her that he was leaving her for another woman. Christie disappeared for a week and a half, and rumors spread that she wanted the police to think that her husband had murdered her to punish him for leaving. Christie remarried in 1930 to an archaeologist, Sir Max Mallowan, who was fourteen years her junior. She traveled throughout the Middle East with Mallowan, which contributed to the settings of several of her novels, such as Murder on the Orient Express (1934).

      Christie's writing was prolific over the next decade, during which time she developed two major characters for her murder mysteries, Inspector Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. Poirot made his first appearance in Christie's first novel and was long

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