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A review by mborer23
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
3.0
Poirot and Hastings take on a global crime syndicate in this adventure, which is pretty different from their usual milieu of inheritance murders and society thefts. It's too big a narrative for these two, and the strain does show a bit.
Suspending one's disbelief can only go so far. Poirot seems to be not just an analytical genius, but positively omniscient here, as well as ridiculously wealthy; Hastings is somehow both cleverer and dumber than usual.
That being said, I'm pretty sure that Ian Fleming borrowed some of these plot points for his James Bond novels: super-villains out to conquer the world; a master of disguise; a hideout inside a hollowed-out mountain; an atomic threat to global security.
Overall, I'd say this was not Poirot's finest adventure.
Suspending one's disbelief can only go so far. Poirot seems to be not just an analytical genius, but positively omniscient here, as well as ridiculously wealthy; Hastings is somehow both cleverer and dumber than usual.
That being said, I'm pretty sure that Ian Fleming borrowed some of these plot points for his James Bond novels: super-villains out to conquer the world; a master of disguise; a hideout inside a hollowed-out mountain; an atomic threat to global security.
Overall, I'd say this was not Poirot's finest adventure.