And again...

24. THE ABC MURDERS (Poirot)
Although Poirot receives anonymous warning letters about murders, he seems to be unable to stop a serial killer from killing Alice Asher from Andover, Betty Barnard from Bexhill-on-sea, Carmichael Clarke from Churston... A very Sherlock Holmesian story narrated by Dr. Watson, ups, Hastings, in which Poirot works as a psychological profiler to find the killer. One just has to find a motive...

Memorable quotes:
-"I had not the courage to say that I had not the least idea what he meant."
-"Is it worse to take the life or lives of strangers than to take the life of some near and dear to you - some one who trusts and believes in you, perhaps?... It is not worse. It is only more difficult."
-"Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas."
-"Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking."
-"You can guess, of course - and a guess is either right or wrong. If it is right you call it an intuition. If it is wrong you usually do not speak of it again."

Favourite Guest Character: Hastings. Is he too regular?
Mystery: *****
Final Solution: ****
Entertainment: **
11/15


23. A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (Miss Marple)
On October 29th an unusual advertisement is published in a local paper, announcing a murder at 6:30 p.m. of the same day. Everyone appears there - and indeed a murder happens! Nobody knows the killer, nobody knows the victim, but maybe the victim knew somebody? Miss Marple investigates, talks to old ladies and finally a cat helps solving the mystery of violets, pearls, missing photographs, aspirin and yes, Delicious Death: "Let's all drink to Delicious Death and to hell with the after effects."

Memorable quotes:
-"Youth is the time to have your fling."
-"One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone."
-"It's never a mistake to marry a man you want to marry - even if you regret it."
-"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."
-"'She loves it', said Edmund, who had not the faintest idea whether this was so or not, but like most sons, preferred to believe that all was well with those loved, but frequently irritating beings, parents."

Favourite Guest Character: Mrs Goedler
Mystery: ****
Final Solution: ***
Entertainment: ***
10/15


22. TAKEN AT THE FLOOD (Poirot)
Only a few weeks after very rich Mr. Cloade marries young Rosaleen he is killed in an air raid. Now his family is left penniless.. that is unless the first husband of Rosaleen turns up alive and well. Poirot deals with a murder, a suicide and an accident, but which is which? A book in which twenty pages before the end, we're back now where we started.

Memorable quotes:
-"One should never struggle against the inevitable."
-"What I say is a gentleman's a gentleman even if he does drive a tractor."
-"No woman in the world is worth putting a bullet through your head."
-"What happens to the ivy when the oak round which it clings is struck down?"
-"The tragedy of life is that people do not change."

Favourite Guest Character: Lynn!
Mystery: **
Final Solution: ****
Entertainment: **
8/15