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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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About this listen

Shortly after Hercule Poirot’s visit, a dentist lies murdered in his Harley Street practice…

The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments?

A shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Now – in the words of the rhyme – can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?

©1940 Agatha Christie Mallowan; (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London, UK Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Thriller Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Detective

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Critic reviews

"A real Agatha Christie thriller....A swift course in unflagging suspense that leads to a complete surprise." (New York Times)

"This is major Christie." (New York Herald Tribune)
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Hugh Fraser is wonderful as ever. I really thought I had it this time. Sadly I was wildly incorrect. Maybe next time.

Another great Christie.

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loved it great storyline
Poirot has the world on his shoulders he's got to go to the dentist.
once out he's relieved till 3 hours later when he's told his dentist is dead.

1 2 buckle my shoe

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An interesting story, the detective component is quite satisfactory. Not all of the Christie's stories are such existing. I recommend it.

Interesting and exciting

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Not her best but a very enjoyable listen. Frazer narrates beautifully, sounds like the characters should.

good plot well narrated

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The story is as usual ingenious but improbable, the characters fairly stereotypical (fat chance of identifying with any of Christie’s creations, since even mon ami Hastings (absent in this novel) lacks the modest charm and intellect of Watson.)
Christie is the exponent par excellence of ignoring the elephant in the room- as Basil Fawlty later said in a saying which entered UK English “Don’t mention the war!”
This book was published in November 1940, fourteen months into WWII, by which time France had fallen, Dunkirk had been evacuated as well as possible, and even if Christie didn’t care too much about Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, she can hardly have failed to have noticed that “this country is at war with Germany”!
The best detective in the world has not twigged that his country has been occupied- again- though he arrived in the UK as a refugee in the earlier 1914-18 war. Not so astute our Hercule!
I imagine that Christie was concerned about maintaining US sales, and, more honourably, avoiding undermining morale at a time when the UK alone stood against the Nazi bulldozer.
I don’t want to get too carried away with my opinions of the Christie Weltanschauung.
Will Poirot do the right thing?

Poirot has to make a moral choice.

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