This novel is about a girl who comes to Hercule Poirot's office and says that she thinks she's killed someone, but then before any real investigation can happen she vanishes. Who is she, who's been murdered, and why did it happen? With the help of a mystery writer friend who is a notorious socialite, he finds out that she is the daughter of a rich man who's just returned from Africa with his new wife and that Nora, the young woman, is living as a "third girl" at a small flat in London to help with boarding expensive. But for as far as Poirot can figure, no murder has occurred that is connected to young Nora.
This book wasn't particularly my favorite, though I don't have much to compare it too. The mystery was good and I enjoy Poirot as a character, but I do feel there were some problems.
The reader of this audiobook was awesome, which is why I give it a generous 4 stars, because Hugh Fraser is the Hercule Poirot's friend and sometimes assistant in the BBC Tv series, Captain Hastings. It was a treat to listen to him voice the narrations and Poirot himself.
I think I struggled with this one because it seemed so redundant. Different characters repeated so much of the same things about Nora or her father or other situations that it kind of bogged me down. If I was reading it myself I probably would have put it down or had a far harder time getting through it. I don't know if this is the case of other of Hercule Poirot books or others of her books in general--it sure wasn't the case in And Then There Were None. It made it kind of hard to get through all the information, because it kept being repeated, relentlessly. So in trying to find out for myself what was going on and who was actually murdered, was more difficult than it should have been.
I will listen to another or two, especially if it is by Hugh Fraser, but it might be some time before that actually happens.
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