The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery (A New Hercule Poirot Mystery)

· Hercule Poirot Mysteries Book 1 · Harper Collins
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The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.

Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. 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's quiet supper in a London coffee house 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 the fashionable Bloxham Hotel have been murdered, a cufflink 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...

In the hands of internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah, Poirot plunges into a mystery set in 1920s London – a diabolically clever puzzle that can only be solved by the talented Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.

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Chia Wei Phan
July 3, 2016
A brave move to take over the Poirot story. I miss Waterhouse and Zailer though I wish they finally had a good sex life or something. Meanwhile this Monogram murder is a joy to read and the spin drained my little grey cells a bit. It is full of love and passion, guilt and revenge. There is a second installment coming in. Can't wait. Will support Sophie Hannah. But still, miss my Waterhouse and Zailer.
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Lilly B
January 20, 2019
really great. it's no easy task to create works like Agatha Christies and I think the author did a good job, my only dislike was that poirot was slightly more open about his theories but all in all this is an amazing book.
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Krishna Kumar
February 5, 2019
A very typical Poirot story with an extremely complex plot and a mind-boggling denouement. Hercule Poirot is in the very good and capable hands of Ms. Hannah, Agatha Christie's worthy successor.
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About the author

Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling crime fiction writer. Her crime novels have been translated into 34 languages and published in 51 countries. Her psychological thriller The Carrier won the Specsavers National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year in 2013. In 2014 and 2016, Sophie published The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket, the first new Hercule Poirot mysteries since Agatha Christie's death, both of which were national and international bestsellers. Sophie’s novels The Point of Rescue and The Other Half Lives have been adapted for television as Case Sensitive, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. Sophie is also a bestselling poet who has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Her poetry is studied at GCSE and A-level throughout the UK. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, two children and dog.

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.

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