The Monogram Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Sophie Hannah · Agatha Christie

Sep 2014 · Hercule Poirot Mysteries Book 2 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

"Equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging. Reading The Monogram Murders was like returning to a favorite room of a long-lost home" -Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

Since the publication of her first novel in 1920, more than two billion copies of Agatha Christie’s books have been sold around the globe. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha’s most beloved creation, Hercule Poirot.

‘I’m a dead woman, or I shall be soon…’

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered.  She is terrified – but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.

Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim...

Ratings and reviews

Don't know who Gillian Flynn is, but to describe Monsieur Poirot as "being in very, very good hands" is stretching things JUST a bit, I think ... suffice it to say that a somewhat odd version of him is indeed in this book, he still uses a lot a French phrases, and he solves murders. And THAT, friends, is pretty much where ANY resemblance to Mrs. Christie's arguably greatest creation ends. One hopes her heirs can fend off the urge to treat Miss Marple in a similarly disappointing manner, although I suppose it can be argued that such has already happened in the latest television series in which she is featured as a rather brazen, tiresomely modern, know-it-all Karen -- literally, the antithesis of the character as written. As Poirot himself would say, "Quelle horreur!" Greed really is a terrible thing, Mr. Pritchard ... but you enjoy Granny's money and destroying her literary contributions now, y'hear?

It was very similar to Agatha Christy's books but I could tell it wasn't. Just some little things about the written words, the way they were used. But I did enjoy the book & look forward to any others with Pierot. Thank you for the entertainment.

First part ok. Explanation went on and on and on. Had to force myself to finish it because I no longer cared. Agatha Christie would be ashamed of you for using her name and characters. Whoever told you that this book was like hers lied.

About the author

SOPHIE HANNAH is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous psychological thrillers, which have been published in 51 countries and adapted for television, as well as The Monogram Murders, the first Hercule Poirot novel authorized by the estate of Agatha Christie, and its sequels Closed Casket, The Mystery of Three Quarters, and The Killings at Kingfisher Hill. Sophie is also the author of a self-help book, How to Hold a Grudge, and hosts the podcast of the same name. She lives in Cambridge, UK.

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.