6/20/2023 0 Comments The big 4 agatha christie![]() ![]() ![]() He learns that Poirot is becoming obsessed with a shadowy secret organization called “the Big Four”, after the codenames the four of them use. The book opens with Hastings coming back from South America for a bit of a visit and catch-up with Poirot. Instead of a quaint country house mystery that subtly reveals the innate darkness in every human’s psychology, we get an over-the-top spy thriller in which Poirot and Hastings must stop four people from total world domination. It’s like the Robert Downey version of Sherlock Holmes. I’m not even sure where to begin, because this is like the opposite of a Hercule Poirot story. But The Big Four is to Poirot what “Threshold” is to Star Trek: Voyager-which is to say, it is a well-intentioned attempt that might have once held interesting ideas but, when executed, became a shambles of a story that is best forgotten. ![]() There was bound to be a few stinkers in there. I knew, given Agatha Christie’s prolific output, that not all of her books, not even all of her Poirot mysteries, could be good. Guys, this book is legitimately terrible. ![]()
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