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Con diferencia el caso más entretenido de Poirot de todos los que llevo leídos. Un caso original, donde realmente lo que importa es el caso y encontrar el culpable, no el culebrón de fondo de los personajes. Además, la autora ofrece todas las pistas necesarias a lo largo del libro, sin guardarse ningún as bajo la manga como sí hace en otros libros. Ya las teorías que te montes con toda esa información dada es tema distinto. Quizás por estructura es la obra que más recuerda a Sherlock Holmes (incluso se lo menciona en una conversación) y por eso me haya gustado tanto. En cualquier caso una montaña rusa muy divertida con una resolución sorprendente pero lógica.

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5.0

Hastings is visiting his friend, Hercule Poirot, who has retired but will take a case when it interests him. HP receives a litter saying there will be a crime in Andover on a certain date. Signed A.B.C. First it seems like a joke, but then Alice Asher is found murdered. An ABC Railway Guide is found near her. Soon HP gets another letter taunting him about another crime about to happen in Bexhill and Betty Barnhard is the victim. The third is Carmichael Clarke but the letter arrives too late due to a mix-up with the address. Police, HP, and relatives of past victims are searching when D is about to happen. Interspersed now and again are chapters about Alexander Bonaparte Cust who seems to be the criminal.

Police capture Cust but HP is not satisfied and gathers all the people related to the victims. HP realizes it is Franklin Clarke who wanted his brother's money. He conceived of this plan so it would seem to be a part of a series of murders. Clarke even had ABC as the patsy. Love this. Agatha is genius.