The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot--the legendary star
of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently
The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket--returns in a stylish,
diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930.
"We Agatha Christie fans read her stories--and particularly her Poirot
novels--because the mysteries are invariably equal parts charming and
ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging. Sophie Hannah had a
massive challenge in reviving the beloved Poirot, and she met it with
heart and no small amount of little grey cells. I was thrilled to see
the Belgian detective in such very, very good hands. Reading The
Monogram Murders was like returning to a favorite room of a long-lost
home."
-- Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
Hercule Poirot returns home after an agreeable luncheon to find an angry
woman waiting to berate him outside his front door. Her name is Sylvia
Rule, and she demands to know why Poirot has accused her of the murder
of Barnabas Pandy, a man she has neither heard of nor ever met. She is
furious to be so accused, and deeply shocked. Poirot is equally shocked,
because he too has never heard of any Barnabas Pandy, and he certainly
did not send the letter in question. He cannot convince Sylvia Rule of
his innocence, however, and she marches away in a rage.
Shaken, Poirot goes inside, only to find that he has a visitor waiting
for him -- a man called John McCrodden who also claims also to have
received a letter from Poirot that morning, accusing him of the murder
of Barnabas Pandy...
Poirot wonders how many more letters of this sort have been sent in his
name. Who sent them, and why? More importantly, who is Barnabas Pandy,
is he dead, and, if so, was he murdered? And can Poirot find out the
answers without putting more lives in danger?
