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MURDER IN RETROSPECT-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot prods the memories of surviving participants in a 16-year-old English seaside poisoning affair, pulls out the unsuspected killer and clears the scutcheon of a young girl whose mother was convicted of the crime. An exciting exercise in high-&-low deducing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders in June | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

EVIL UNDER THE SUN - Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot's little grey cells function on the implausibly executed but beautifully elucidated murder of a blonde siren at a British summer resort. Not Christie's best, but better than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: March Murders | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...CYPRESS - Agatha Christie- Dodd, Mead ($2). Hercule Poirot bends his egg-shaped head to freeing Elinor Carlisle, accused of murdering the lodge-keeper's fetching daughter with a fishpaste sandwich. Good smooth Poirot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Murders | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...REGATTA MYSTERY-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Nine short stories, with Hercule Poirot starring in some, Mr. Parker Pyne in others. Ingenious and slight. (Some have appeared in magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: June Mysteries | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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