We’ve got two bodies, a neighbour who turns out to have a checkered past, unsanctioned love-all the good stuff. Though Hastings’ characterization isn’t great here, the mystery itself is much more engaging. In what is a most magnificent coincidence, she turns up again near the crime scene, and happens to be embroiled in the mystery. Hastings is even more of a buffoon here: he falls in love with a girl he meets on the channel ferry. Much like The Mysterious Affair at Styles, this novel has Captain Hastings as the narrator. But Hercule Poirot, no, he does not overlook such things! That and the lead pipe. This is the first oddity in a series of oddities that the police overlook, much to their sorrow. (Thank God.) Rather, the body turns up in an open grave on the golf course undergoing renovation. It’s not about Poirot being smarter than other detectives or about him noticing more details-it’s about his method, his organized way of approaching those details and fitting the theory to the facts rather than the other way around.Ĭontrary to what the title might imply, there is no golf in this book. Hercule Poirot returns to once again solve a murder, this time of a wealthy Frenchman who seems to have foreseen his death.
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