Agatha Christie
The Murder on the Links

First Published

UK

John Lane (The Bodley Head), London, May 1923

Grand Magazine, Dec. 1922 - Mar. 1923 as 'The Girl with the Anxious Eyes'

US

Dodd Mead, New York, 1923

Plot

(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.

But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the care is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically-murdered corpse ...

Characters

Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings, Paul T. Renauld, Eloise Renauld, Jack Renauld, Gabriel Stonor, Madame Daubreuil, Marthe Daubreuil, Cinderella, Lucien Bex, Hautet, Giraud, Joseph Aarons, Madame la Vicomtesse, Denise Oulard, Leonie Oulard, Auguste, Grosier, Georges Conneau, James Japp, Bella Duveen, Dr. Durand, Hiram P. Trapp, Francoise Arrichet, Arnold Beroldy, Jeanne Beroldy, Masters, Marchaud

Movie & TV

Murder on the Links

Agahta Christie's POIROT VI, 1995-97

director Andrew Grieve

writer Anthony Horowitz

cast David Suchet(Poirot), Hugh Fraser(Hastings), Bill Moody(Giraud), Damien Thomas(Paul Renauld), Jacinta Mulcahy(Bella Duveen), Bernard Latham(Lucien Bex), Ben Pullen(Jack Renauld), Diana Fletcher(Eloise Renauld), Terence Beesley(Stonor), Sophie Linfield(Marthe), Kate Fahy(Bernadette Daubreuil)

Itoshino Cendrillon

Meitantei AKAFUJI TAKASHI, 2005 (JP/TV)

director Kazuki Watanabe

writer Yuki Fujimoto

cast Shiro Ito, Takashi Tsukamoto, Toru Masuoka

Link

1. Official Site: The Murder on the Links
2. Wikipedia: The Murder on the Links
3. IMDb: Poirot: The Murder on the Links (1996)