Poirot recibe una carta en la que se le anuncia un asesinato que será cometido en Andover. Al pie una firma: ABC. En el día señalado, efectivamente, la estanquera de Andover es asesinada. Nuevas cartas y asesinatos se suceden con orden alfabético.
Caroline Craie bcre senar Arnyasen hilketagatik kondenatu ondoren. Hercule Poirotengana hurbi Idu da haren alaba Carla Lemarchant. Arnak. hil baino lehen espeixean zegocla. gutun bat bidali omen zion, eta errugabea zela esaten omen zuen bertan.Carlak Liste du bere senargaiak utzi egingo duela bera, benctan hilizailea nor izan zen argitzen ez bada. Poirotek onarizen du ikerketa egitea, eta jakingo du erailketaren egunean bosi lagun zeudela etxean, bost txerrikume.Poliziaren ikerketak Arnyas koniinaz pozoituta hil zela argilu zuen, garagardo hoiza edateko erabilitako edontzi batean aurkitu baitzuten pozola. Koniina aldameneko etxeko kirnikari baten laborategitik ostu zuen Carolinek, baina bere burua hihzeko: hon omen zuen asmoa. Zer gertatu oie zen? Bost horietalik nor izan oie zen hiltzailea? Hercule Poirotek esango digu.
Leonides familiako hiru belaunaldi elkarrekin bizi dira, Aristide patriarkaren hegalen pean. Lehenbiziko emaztea, Marcia, hil zenean. haren ahizpak hartu zuen bere gain etxekocn ardura. Bigarren ernaztea. Brenda geldoa. senarra baino hogeitaka uric gazleagoa da. eta afera bat dauka, antza, Aristideren biloben etxeko irakasle Laurencerekin.Aitona pozoiturik hilda agertzen denean. haren biloba Sophia Leonidesek esaten dio Charles Hayward bere senargai eta narraizaileari ezin direla ezkondu hank eta hiltzailea harrapatu arte.Etxean bizi diren guztiek zeukaten eragingarria eta aukera Anistide hiltzeko. Inork ez du zuribide argirik. Izan ere, guztiek zekiten Aristidek begi-zainketarako erabiltzen zuen botikak pozoi hilgarri bat zeukala, seme-alaba eta biloben aurrean berak halaxe azaldu baitzien, Josephine bilobaren galdera bati erantzunez. Testamentuaren arabera. guztiek jasoko dute herentzia polita. Baina. nor ote hilizailea?
John Malkovich stars as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's ingenious serial-killer thriller, newly adapted for BBC Television in 2018 by the award-winning team behind And Then There Were None, Witness for the Prosecution and Ordeal by Innocence. 'Let us see, Mr Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be.' Murder is a very simple crime. But at the hands of a maniac, a serial killer, it becomes a very complicated business. The 1930s is a time when the nation is dangerously divided and suspicion and hatred are on the rise. In the midst of this, Poirot faces a serial killer known only as A.B.C. First the killer strikes in Andover, then Bexhill. As the murder count rises, the only clue is the copy of The ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot's investigations are thwarted at every turn by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If Poirot is to match his nemesis then everything about him will be called into question: his authority, his integrity, his past, his identity. This new tie-in edition coincides with the new BBC production adapted for television by Sarah Phelps, with an all-star cast including John Malkovich, Rupert Grint, Tara Fitzgerald, Andrew Buchan, Shirley Henderson, Kevin McNally, Gregor Fisher and Jack Farthing.
From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No. 13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realise was that behind him, in seat No. 2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark hed overheard back in Jerusalem: You see, dont you, that shes got to be killed? Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman hed ever met
