![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was translated to English in 2007 and published by Harper Collins. Strange circumstances multiply, culminating in the discovery of a second body stabbed with the same murder weapon. ![]() The novel was filmed for television with David Suchet as Poirot in 1996 and in 2003 the graphic novel adaptation was published in France by Emmanuel Proust editions. But the Belgian detective arrives just too late: the man who had summoned him is found dead on a golf course, stabbed in the back with a letter opener and wearing an ill-fitting coat with a mysterious love letter in its pocket. John Moffatt starred as Poirot in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of 1990. He says of the real case of the serial wife-killer George Joseph Smith: "he obeyed the common dictates of human nature, arguing that what had once succeeded would succeed again, and he paid the penalty of his lack of originality." The Murder on the Links was first published in 1923. The influence on Agatha Christie by French crime writers like Leroux is best felt in this novel which is unique in tone and style from her later work. Poirot is in his element on this case, revealing that human nature is always repetitive. In the case of The Murder on the Links, this proves true and a killer pays the ultimate penalty. The plot has peculiar complications and the reader will have to be very astute indeed if he guesses who the criminal is until the last complexity has been unravelled.Īs Laura Thompson writes in her biography of Christie's life, Murder on the Links was "very French." Agatha Christie had always been influenced by French crime writers (specifically, Gaston Leroux, author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera) and this story shows some marked differences in tone and style from the novels published on either side of it. ![]()
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