The Murder on the Links

Book #2 in Agatha Christie's Poirot series. 'Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law.' One of Agatha Christie's earlier novels to feature the iconic character, Hercule Poirot, The Murder on the Links is a remarkable piece of detective fiction that critics have compared to the literary flair of Arthur Conan Doyle. After an urgent request for help, mastermind detective Hercule Poirot and his trusted companion, Captain Arthur Hastings, are summoned to a windswept seaside town on the French coast. Despite their haste, Poirot and Hastings are too late: their client is found dead in a newly dug grave on a golf course, a knife plunged into his back. As Poirot sets upon a mission to find the ghastly killer, he begins to untangle a web of buried secrets, betrayal and deception – including a near identical case from twenty-two years prior… With clever twists, razor-sharp wit and breath-halting suspense, The Murder on the Links is a gripping mystery that cements Christie as a master of the genre. Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976) was an English author. She was a prolific writer, most famous for her detective novels and short story collections which centred around the iconic characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Renowned as the 'Queen of Crime', she remains the bestselling novelist of all time, with her sales only second to the Bible.