Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds audiobook

3.75 stars. This is a quick, enjoyable read. As usual, Poirot delivers. Poirot and a friend are at a restaurant. Their waitress comments on the behavior of a customer who eats there every Tuesday and Thursday evening for the last ten years. Poirot finds this suspicious. It is amazing how Christie can create a whole mystery of a mundane activity such as ordering a different meal. Poirot is incisive and compassionate as always, but the short form lacks depth in comparison to other Christie's novels that I've read - which I chalk up to a length issue.

I haven't been getting a lot of March Mystery Madness reading in, but I have been listening to the Hercule Poirot short stories while I do errands to get at least a little be in. I think I am getting better at enjoying mysteries, picking up on what could be the threads to pull and not get mad if I pull at the wrong ones. I think there is also something to following a series and getting to know the sleuth's behavior, which can also provide a different set of clues to follow. Overall, I quite enjoyed this one. I think there will be more short story listening in my future!Listened to the audiobook, narrated by Hugh Fraser.

I'm loving this series and the character Hercule Poirot. He has a keen eye to catch the small details and then solves the mystery with those facts that nobody else ever really notices.

Poirot and a friend are at a restaurant. Their waitress comments on the behavior of another of the customers - and Poirot finds it suspicious. When the customer is found dead, Poirot follows the clues to indicate the correct deduction. The customer was murdered for the estate!Who done it? (view spoiler)[ The nephew. He knew that his uncles had been at odds with each other for years. The rich uncle was sick and the poorer uncle would have lasted for many years. The nephew murdered the poor uncle but impersonated him imperfectly (leading to Poirot's pointing him out) until the rich uncle died - resulting in the nephew inheriting the estate. Or he would have, if not for Poirot. (hide spoiler)]

I listened to the Audiobook version that is part of a collection of 20 Agatha Christie stories. This is a Hercule Peroit short story, and it's classic Peroit. Clever. Well-written. And enjoyable.

The English .... such verbiage!

Excellent One of my favorite Poirot short stories. Poirot once again relies on the predictability of human behavior and both detects and solves a murder based on eating habits.

E' sempre un piacere leggere del simpatico Hercule Poirot. Questa non sarà la sua indagine più famosa, ma era comunque molto piacevole e stimolante.