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Agatha Christie

The A.B.C. Murders




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A serial killer is murdering apparently random people in order of their names: first Alice Ascher of Andover* second Betty Barnard of Bexhill-on-Sea* third Sir Carmichael Clarke of Churston. The killer sends a letter to Hercule Poirot before each murder* telling him where and when each murder will take place* but Poirot and the police always arrive too late on the third murder. The killer signs himself 'ABC' and at the place of each murder* leaves an ABC Railway Guide next to the body.
Poirot and the police are baffled until a series of clues lead them to suspect the murderer is traveling as a stocking salesman. Then the 'D' murder in Doncaster is committed wrongly - the wrong person is killed in a cinema* although there is someone with the initial 'D' sitting close by. Then* a stocking salesman called Alexander Bonaparte Cust voluntarily surrender himself to the police.
The case seems closed* but although Cust has confessed to the crimes* he claims not to have heard of Hercule Poirot and cannot explain the letters* although they were written on his typewriter. Cust suffers from epilepsy and is subject to blackouts. He claims he can not recall committing the murders* but he believes he committed them because he was in the vicinity of each crime scene. He also sees other clues* such as blood on his cuff and believes himself the culprit. Poirot is suspicious and is later able to prove that Cust is innocent of the crimes* particularly when a man is able to provide an alibi for Cust when he was supposedly murdering Betty.
In a twist ending* Poirot reveals that the brother of Sir Carmichael Clarke* Franklin Clarke* wanted Sir Carmichael's property and money* and committed the crimes in order to draw attention away from the murder of his brother. He would have been an almost automatic suspect if his brother died under unusual circumstances* but creating the illusion that his brother was the victim of a serial killer would draw attention away from him as nobody would be looking for an individual motive for the crimes (Poirot ruling out the others associated with the crimes as none of them had enough to gain to make the effort involved in framing Cust and planning the murders worthwhile). Franklin had met Cust by chance and decided to use him as part of his plan. He arranged for Cust to be hired as a stocking salesman and gave him a travel itinerary that ensured he was at the scene of each murder. It is also revealed that Clarke had put the blood on Cust's cuff. He also sent Cust a box of ABC Railway Guides and a typewriter* on which he had already typed the 'ABC' letters. The letters were written to Poirot because Clarke wanted the police to be immediately aware of the actions of the 'serial killer'* but* because he wanted the letter about his brother to be delayed* he had to write to a private address to increase the likelihood of the 'C' letter going astray (Helping Poirot come to the correct conclusion when Hastings suggested that the third letter was addressed that way on purpose)* the letters being sent to Poirot in particular as both someone who would be known to the police and allowing the slightly-prejudiced Clarke to score points against a foreigner.






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