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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Jon, relax... it is not a series. Just as the dozens of Christie novels that all have Poirot in them are not a series.
BOb
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I agree with you about the Marlowe novels - they are all totally independent books. That's not actually true with the Poirot novels; if you plan to read them all, it's best to read them in the right order, because in many of the later ones, Poirot refers to his earlier cases, and gives away the solution to them! Eg, in "Cards on the Table", Poirot describes his solution to "Murder on the Orient Express", so you really
don't want to read the former book before the latter.
There are also recurring
characters in Christie's books. Eg, the wealthy financier Mr. Robinson is introduced to us in the Poirot book "Cat Among the Pigeons", and then shows up again in the
Miss Marple book "At Bertram's Hotel".
There are all sorts of good reasons to read Christie's books in the order she wrote them
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