Poirot: The French Collection - The French Collection  (English, Paperback, Christie Agatha)

Poirot: The French Collection contains three adventures of the great detective, Poirot, in France. It includes: Murder on the Links, Mystery of The Blue Train and Death in The Clouds.

Summary of the Book

The Murder on the Links

Poirot gets a call from his client who is in need of his help immediately. However, Poirot arrives too late and finds his client’s body lying face down in the golf course. The detective wonders why the man is wearing his son’s coat and finds a love letter in the dead man’s pocket. Just when Poirot thinks he is ready to start solving this case, he finds another body murdered in the same way. Who could have killed the two and why?

The Mystery of the Blue Train

Ruth Kettering has been found brutally murdered in the luxurious Blue Train that arrives at Nice. Poirot has been called to solve the mystery and the first suspect is Ruth’s husband. Poirot is somehow not convinced that it is her husband and decides to stage an enactment of the entire journey, including the murder.

Death in the Clouds

Hercule Poirot’s seat, No.9, in the aircraft makes it very convenient for him to be able to observe his fellow air passengers. While he is busy noticing the people around him, he doesn’t realize that there is a dead body of a woman behind him in seat No.2.

About Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was an English writer known for her murder mystery novels and short stories. She has also written romances under the name Mary Westmacott. A prolific writer, Agatha Christie wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections and is best remembered for characters such as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Some of her most famous works are: The Mysterious Affair At Styles, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, And Then There Were None and Curtain: Poirot's Last Case. Her play, The Mousetrap, holds the record as the longest initial run of any play in history, running at the West End of London since 1952. She was bestowed with the Order of the British Empire for her contributions towards English literature.