It all began with a visit to the dentist. After having his teeth
seen to, Hercule Poirot carries on with his day, only to find later that
the dentist was found dead in the exam room. Who would want to kill a
dentist, and why? As more is revealed it seems the situation is bigger
than initially surmised, involving more deaths, missing persons,
international spies, and assassination attempts. It has a similar feel
to it as
The Big Four,
in that one small incident that starts the story turns out to be a
smaller piece of a large international web of crime. Or is it? I really
liked this as it was a bit more gripping than some of the others in the
series, which are rather more relaxed and slower paced. This book has
multiple titles:
An Overdose of Death and
The Patriotic Murders;
the chapters are titled after the verses in the rhyme ‘One Two Buckle
My Shoe’, and there is actually a shoe buckle in the story line. The audio
version of the book is narrated by Hugh Fraser, who always does a great
performance, even when Captain Hastings is not in the story. So far this
one of my personal favorites of the series along with
The ABC Murders,
The Big Four,
The Five Little Pigs, and
Murder in Mesopotamia. Highly recommended to mystery readers and/or historical fiction (1930’s-40’s) fans.
[ official
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe page on the official
Agatha Christie web site ]
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