by Agatha Christie
The Murder on the Links is Agatha Christie's second Poirot novel, featuring the brilliant Belgian detective and his sidekick, Captain Hastings.In this characteristic whodunit, Poirot is summoned to a seaside town in northern France by a desperate letter from a rich businessman, who fears that he is being stalked. Poirot arrives to find the businessman already dead, his body lying facedown in an open grave on a golf course, a knife in his back—the victim of a mysterious murder. Over the coming days Poirot clashes wits with an arrogant Parisian detective, Giraud, while Hastings finds himself pining after a beautiful but shadowy American expatriate known to him only as "Cinderella." Together, Poirot and Hastings unravel the intricate web of mystery and deceit behind the murder.Christie based this mystery after a real-life French murder case, and it's believed that this is the first detective novel to use the phrase "the scene of the crime."
