# The Murder on the Links

> Summoned to France by a frightened millionaire, Hercule Poirot arrives too late to prevent a murder and finds himself matching wits with a proud French detective, in one of Agatha Christie's early triumphs.

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## About
A desperate letter brings Hercule Poirot across the Channel to a villa on the French coast. By the time he arrives, his would-be client lies dead in a shallow grave beside a golf course, and the game is already afoot.What it's aboutThe Murder on the Links finds Poirot and Captain Hastings investigating the killing of a wealthy man whose past conceals an old scandal and a buried crime. Set in France, the case pits Poirot against Monsieur Giraud, a celebrated and arrogant detective of the modern school who trusts to footprints and physical clues rather than the workings of the mind. As the two men race toward opposite conclusions, a second body, a pair of mysterious women and a long-hidden secret complicate everything, while Hastings finds his own heart unexpectedly engaged.ThemesThe novel stages a contest between two philosophies of detection, Giraud's showy, evidence-hunting energy against Poirot's insistence on psychology and order, and leaves no doubt which Christie prefers. Beneath the rivalry lie themes of the past's long reach, of buried guilt resurfacing, and of the disguises people wear to escape old lives. Love and loyalty tug at Hastings, giving the puzzle a human warmth alongside its intellectual play.Why it still mattersAn early Poirot novel from the 1920s, it helped cement the detective's method and personality and remains one of Christie's cleverly constructed favorites. The French setting, the professional rivalry and the emotional subplot give it a distinctive richness, and the solution is worked out with her customary fairness and flair. For readers exploring the roots of the Poirot series, it is both an entertaining mystery and a revealing early statement of what makes her detective unique.Who it's forIdeal for fans of golden-age detective fiction and readers who enjoy a battle of wits between rival sleuths. Anyone who loves Poirot, or a well-clued puzzle with a touch of romance, will find this a satisfying read.

Sources and references
Verified references for this edition: Open Library, WorldCat, Agatha Christie on Wikipedia.

## Specifications
- author: Agatha Christie
- publisher: DotBooks
- imprint: DotBooks
- synopsis: A Poirot mystery of misdirection and rivalry, unfolding around a killing that quickly proves more tangled than it first appears.
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 221
- format: paperback
- oclc: 40402420
- openlibrary: OL472073W