Elephants can remember

a Hercule Poirot mystery

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Elephants can remember (2014, Center Point Large Print)

287 pages

English language

Published July 25, 2014 by Center Point Large Print.

ISBN:
978-1-62899-158-1
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2 stars (1 review)

"With the help of Detective Poirot, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver must solve a murder from her past--before the tragic piece of history repeats itself"--

77 editions

A Poirot that is too late

2 stars

This is my second read of this one and I had the loose concept of how the murder was done and the key points still in my head from last time I read it.

While it's great to see Adriana Oliver and essentially get some insight into how Agatha herself felt about her work near the end of her life, the writing here isn't as vibrant as her earlier work. What Elephants Can Remember appears to be is taking some of her notes on a story that she was working on and padding it out into a novel by having the various people monologue at either Poirot or Oliver (or each other).

I think even without having read it before, it's very likely that you'll get the jist of the murder about half way through. It's a shame that it's such a poorly written novel as the murder could have …

Subjects

  • Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
  • Fiction
  • Private investigators
  • Large type books

Places

  • England