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A review by bookishreadsandme
Third Girl by Agatha Christie
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
4.0
This is a Poirot that I really enjoyed! Poirot has a young woman turn up at his house confessing she’s a murderer and then hastily leaving when she sees Poirot and exclaims he is too old to help her! 😆 Of course, our quite arrogant and confident Poirot takes this to heart and then fixates on finding out where she went to.
What I liked about it was how it was Christie’s take on the changing world around her, as at the point web she wrote this she was an older woman and with it being the Swinging 60’s, it is a very different world to when she first started writing her books.
The mystery really intrigued me as it wasn’t like any other Christie book I had read, it was more like a missing person’s case and there are a lot of characters who all seem a bit shady! Also a bonus was Poirot pretty much features throughout the story instead of dipping in and out like he does in a lot of stories. I also liked that we had the brilliant Ariadne Oliver back too. She is such a fun character.
Overall, another fantastic Poirot mystery for me!