In this Hercule Poirot mystery, Poirot is approached by Police Superintendent Spence, who has doubts that a man who'd been convicted of a murder was the actual criminal. He doesn't want to have a wrongful execution of a man on his conscience when he starts his retirement in the near future. Poirot agrees to take up residence in the small town where Mrs. McGinty, the murdered woman, had lived. Her lodger, James Bentley, was the man convicted of her murder. Poirot begins with the theory that since Mrs. McGinty was an ordinary charwoman (who cleaned for several different people in the area), then it must mean that it was her murderer who was extraordinary. The trail soon leads to a newspaper article published the weekend before Mrs. McGinty's murder, in which a journalist looks back in time many years ago to four different crimes that women were involved in. Poirot wonders whether an original of one of the photographs that accompanied the article had also been seen by Mrs. McGinty in one of the houses where she cleaned. Poirot learns about the four different crimes, and then tries to figure out which of the people Mrs. McGinty worked for was associated with one of the crimes. It's a tough job to narrow down the list, but of course Poirot does it with style.
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Mrs. McGinty's Dead
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie (1952) 181 pages
In this Hercule Poirot mystery, Poirot is approached by Police Superintendent Spence, who has doubts that a man who'd been convicted of a murder was the actual criminal. He doesn't want to have a wrongful execution of a man on his conscience when he starts his retirement in the near future. Poirot agrees to take up residence in the small town where Mrs. McGinty, the murdered woman, had lived. Her lodger, James Bentley, was the man convicted of her murder. Poirot begins with the theory that since Mrs. McGinty was an ordinary charwoman (who cleaned for several different people in the area), then it must mean that it was her murderer who was extraordinary. The trail soon leads to a newspaper article published the weekend before Mrs. McGinty's murder, in which a journalist looks back in time many years ago to four different crimes that women were involved in. Poirot wonders whether an original of one of the photographs that accompanied the article had also been seen by Mrs. McGinty in one of the houses where she cleaned. Poirot learns about the four different crimes, and then tries to figure out which of the people Mrs. McGinty worked for was associated with one of the crimes. It's a tough job to narrow down the list, but of course Poirot does it with style.
In this Hercule Poirot mystery, Poirot is approached by Police Superintendent Spence, who has doubts that a man who'd been convicted of a murder was the actual criminal. He doesn't want to have a wrongful execution of a man on his conscience when he starts his retirement in the near future. Poirot agrees to take up residence in the small town where Mrs. McGinty, the murdered woman, had lived. Her lodger, James Bentley, was the man convicted of her murder. Poirot begins with the theory that since Mrs. McGinty was an ordinary charwoman (who cleaned for several different people in the area), then it must mean that it was her murderer who was extraordinary. The trail soon leads to a newspaper article published the weekend before Mrs. McGinty's murder, in which a journalist looks back in time many years ago to four different crimes that women were involved in. Poirot wonders whether an original of one of the photographs that accompanied the article had also been seen by Mrs. McGinty in one of the houses where she cleaned. Poirot learns about the four different crimes, and then tries to figure out which of the people Mrs. McGinty worked for was associated with one of the crimes. It's a tough job to narrow down the list, but of course Poirot does it with style.
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