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      The ABC Murders

       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by Collins 1936

      Copyright © 1936 Agatha Christie Ltd.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007119295

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2010 ISBN 9780007421893

      Version: 2018-11-23

       Dedication

      To James Watts

      One of my most sympathetic readers

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       9 The Bexhill-on-Sea Murder

       10 The Barnards

       11 Megan Barnard

       12 Donald Fraser

       13 A Conference

       14 The Third Letter

       15 Sir Carmichael Clarke

       16 Not from Captain Hastings’ Personal Narrative

       17 Marking Time

       18 Poirot Makes a Speech

       19 By Way of Sweden

       20 Lady Clarke

       21 Description of a Murderer

       22 Not from Captain Hastings’ Personal Narrative

       23 September 11th. Doncaster

       24 Not from Captain Hastings’ Personal Narrative

       25 Not from Captain Hastings’ Personal Narrative

       26 Not from Captain Hastings’ Personal Narrative

       27 The Doncaster Murder

       28 Not from Captain Hastings’ Personal Narrative

       29 At Scotland Yard

       30 Not from Captain Hastings’ Personal Narrative

       31 Hercule Poirot Asks Questions

       32 And Catch a Fox

       33 Alexander Bonaparte Cust

       34 Poirot Explains

       35 Finale

       About Agatha Christie

       The Agatha Christie Collection

       About the Publisher

       Foreword

      By Captain Arthur Hastings, O.B.E.

      In this narrative of mine I have departed from my usual practice of relating only those incidents and scenes at which I myself was present. Certain chapters, therefore, are written in the third person.

      I wish to assure my readers that I can vouch for the occurrences related in these chapters. If I have taken a certain poetic licence in describing the thoughts and feelings of various persons, it is because I believe I have set them down with a reasonable amount of accuracy. I may add that they have been ‘vetted’ by my friend Hercule Poirot himself.

      In conclusion, I will say that if I have described at too great length some of the secondary personal relationships which arose as a consequence of this strange series of crimes, it is because the human and personal elements can never be ignored. Hercule Poirot once taught me in a very dramatic manner that romance can be a by-product of crime.

      As to the solving of the ABC mystery, I can only say that in my opinion Poirot showed real genius in the way he tackled a problem entirely unlike any which had previously come his way.

       Chapter 1

       The Letter

      It was in June of 1935 that I came home

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