Third Girl
Agatha Christie's Third Girl, first published in November 1966, brings back Hercule Poirot and the novelist Ariadne Oliver.
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Third Girl came out in November 1966 from the Collins Crime Club in Britain, and Dodd, Mead published it in America the year after. It features both Poirot and Ariadne Oliver, the mystery writer who appears in several of the later books.
Norma Restarick comes to Poirot believing that she may have murdered somebody. She takes one look at him and leaves, saying that he is far too old to be any use, and he takes up the case anyway, discovering as he does so that it was Ariadne Oliver who sent her to him. From there the two of them begin asking questions, at her parents' house and at the block of flats where she lives.
The book is unusual in the series in two ways. It is the first Christie novel in some years in which Poirot stays in the story from its opening to its close, and the investigation turns into the discovery of a crime rather than the other way around, since the murder at its centre only comes to light fairly late.
Book details
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1966
- Series
- Hercule Poirot
- Subgenre
- Classic crime, Detective fiction
- Primary genre
- Mystery & Thriller
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- Also on this shelf: Murder on the Orient Express, Hallowe'en Party, Death on the Nile, Dead Man's Folly, Curtain, Sparkling Cyanide, The Big Four, Death in the Clouds, After the Funeral, Five Little Pigs, Evil Under the Sun, The Clocks, Cards on the Table, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder in Mesopotamia, Dumb Witness, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (book 1), The Murder on the Links (book 2), The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (book 3), The Mystery of the Blue Train (book 6), Peril at End House (book 6), Sad Cypress (book 22)
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