Liza Shashenkova’s Reviews > The A.B.C. Murders > Status Update

Who is Alexander Bonaparte Cust? Why is he given chapters of his own, separate from Hastings’s personal narrative? I wonder if he is the serial killer, and whether this book will showcase Poirot’s brilliance in solving a nationwide mystery. I perked my ears up when we learn he had been in the war — as the paperboy remarks, some people don’t return quite right in the head. Hmmmm….

So, I am about to embark on Murder “C”. I don’t know who has read this book, but my assumption is that this string of highly calculated alphabetical murders was committed by someone in the police force or Scotland Yard, aiming to challenge Poirot. Currently, I am keeping a close eye on Japp and Inspector Crome.