![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hastings too has settled into the character with which we are familiar. Poirot feels he owes it to his would-be client to work with the French authorities to find his killer…Ĭhristie’s third book and only the second Poirot novel, she still at this stage hasn’t quite settled into the style that would eventually become her trademark, but in terms of plotting this is a big step up from her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Renauld says he is in imminent fear for his life, and though Poirot and Hastings travel there as quickly as they can, alas, too late! Renauld is dead, stabbed in the back and tipped into a shallow open grave on the golf course that borders his property. He never expects to see her again, but of course he does! The next day Poirot receives a letter begging him to come to Merlinville-sur-Mer, a small resort midway between Boulogne and Calais, to look into an urgent matter for a M. ![]() As they part he asks her name and, laughing, she replies “Cinderella”. On his way home from Paris, the ever-susceptible Hastings is charmed by a girl who shares his carriage on the train to Calais. ![]()
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