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The ABC Murders

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The ABC Murders	comment	The ABC Murders is a 1936 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, often considered to be one of her best works. Hercule Poirot has received a letter after retirement, daring him to solve a case before a victim for every letter of the alphabet is killed (and it's not a Spoiler Title).Frank Tashlin directed a rather loose film adaptation titled The Alphabet Murders in 1965, with Tony Randall as Poirot and Robert Morley as Hastings. In 1992 the novel was adapted into an episode for the fourth season of Poirot; tropes unique to this adaptation are listed there. The novel received another adaptation in 2018 - a three-part BBC miniseries starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot. Two video game adaptations, a 2009 Nintendo DS game and a 2016 multi-platform game, have been released.No relation to the real life "ABC Murders" committed by South African serial killer Moses Sithole, The Alphabet Killer, or the real life Alphabet murders.
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The ABC Murders / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The ABC Murders / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: A breakthrough in the case is made when Poirot realizes that a door-to-door salesman had visited each victim's home. Nobody initially made the connection, or even remembered it, because "he wasn't the sort of man you'd notice".
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The ABC Murders / int_10cdfe4b	type	Fall Guy
The ABC Murders / int_10cdfe4b	comment	Fall Guy: Alexander Bonaparte Cust. The murderer even manages to trick Cust himself into believing that he is guilty.
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The ABC Murders / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
The ABC Murders / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: When Poirot and Hastings see the dead body of the first victim, Alice Ascher, an elderly storekeeper, Poirot notes that she must have been beautiful when she was young. Hastings doubts it, but later, when they find her wedding photo, he sees that Poirot was right. Her husband, Franz was also a handsome young man while he's a pathetic drunken wretch in the present.
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The ABC Murders / int_13dc1beb	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
The ABC Murders / int_13dc1beb	comment	Serial Killings, Specific Target: The killer's intended victim was Sir Carmichael, and all the other murders were committed to draw away the attention from the individual murder.
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The ABC Murders / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
The ABC Murders / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: The murderer leaves a book of railway timetables at the scene of each murder. The book in question, naming all the stations in Britain in alphabetical order, is known as an ABC.
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The ABC Murders / int_2fd62e54	type	The Killer in Me
The ABC Murders / int_2fd62e54	comment	The Killer in Me: Alexander Bonaparte Cust has frequent black-outs, and believes that he had committed the murders unaware during those blackouts.
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The ABC Murders / int_317a7dbd	type	Advance Notice Crime
The ABC Murders / int_317a7dbd	comment	Advance Notice Crime: The murderer announces his crimes in letters to Hercule Poirot. Subverted for the third, as the letter was intentionally misaddressed to arrive after the murder, but played straight with the others.
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The ABC Murders / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
The ABC Murders / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: The murders are ultimately an elaborate case of this. The murderer is currently his brother's heir and decides to kill him before he can remarry and perhaps have a son. The other murders are to divert attention away from him as a suspect.
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The ABC Murders / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
The ABC Murders / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: The fourth victim's name starts with E, instead of D, as the killer's pattern would have indicated. However, a man named Downes was sitting near the victim, so the police assumed that he's the intended victim, and A.B.C. just killed the wrong guy. Subverted, however, because the killer has reached his intended victim, so he doesn't care about continuing the pattern any more. He simply killed a random guy and correctly assumed that someone in the cinema would have a last name beginning with "D," making it appear as though ABC made a mistake.
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The ABC Murders / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
The ABC Murders / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Poirot.
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The ABC Murders / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
The ABC Murders / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The murderer is really only interested in killing his brother, the "C" victim, and so conceals that crime among a string of murders. He even joins Poirot's "team" of people associated with the victims, meaning he was in the room with the group all along. Poirot lampshades it: "When do you notice a pin least? In a pincushion. When do you notice a murder least? When it is part of a series of murders."
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The ABC Murders / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The ABC Murders / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Hastings describes to Poirot what sort of murder would be good to investigate. What he actually describes is the formula for most Agatha Christie novels. Hastings also says that the Never One Murder trope keeps mystery novels lively.
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The ABC Murders / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
The ABC Murders / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Point points out that Cust, the fall guy, can't be the murderer in the second murder. Someone suggests that he merely accepted an other person's crime as part of the sequence of murders, to which Poirot points out that the murderer knew details about the MO that were only known to ABC and the police.
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The ABC Murders / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
The ABC Murders / int_4cacfcc3	comment	When suggesting ways to get the waitress Milly Higley to tell them what she knows, Poirot suggests that Donald Fraser flirt with her. When the latter rejects this, Franklin Clarke offers to "try his hand" with her instead, saying that he has wide experience in the area. Later, it's revealed that that was exactly what he did with Betty Barnard, flirting with her in order to lure her into a spot where he could kill her.
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The ABC Murders / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
The ABC Murders / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Betty Barnard is a notorious flirt and enjoys having parties with any men who's willing to take her there (much to her boyfriend's displeasure). Her older sister Megan is a lot more sensible and down-to-earth.
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The ABC Murders / int_5d1eca88	type	Awesome McCoolname
The ABC Murders / int_5d1eca88	comment	Awesome McCoolname: Invoked. Cust's mother named his son after two great conquerors, Alexander the Great and NapolÃ©on Bonaparte, in hopes that he'd grow up to be someone important.
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The ABC Murders / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The ABC Murders / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Poirot bluntly states that the reason Donald is dreaming of Megan is that Megan is taking the place of her freshly murdered sister in Donald's heart. He then advises Donald to go for it!
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The ABC Murders / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The ABC Murders / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: The killer "hires" Cust to sell silk stockings, and sends him a list of "potential customers" to ensure that he'd be seen on the crime locations when the tragedy takes place. Poor Cust is a suggestible epileptic who suffers from frequent blackouts, and believes himself to be committing the murders while unaware.
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The ABC Murders / int_83a55c8e	type	Napoleon Delusion
The ABC Murders / int_83a55c8e	comment	Napoleon Delusion: Referenced by Poirot when speaking of the killer.
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The ABC Murders / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
The ABC Murders / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: The radio program Suspense features an adaptation of the story from the perspective of Alexander Bonaparte Cust.
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The ABC Murders / int_8c114591	type	Red-Flag Recreation Material
The ABC Murders / int_8c114591	comment	Red-Flag Recreation Material: Played with, as the material in question is outwardly innocuous. Franklin Clarke proudly admits to rereading his favorite children's book by Edith Nesbit. However, it's one of the clues that make Poirot suspect him, since it has long been figured out that the killer has a playful, boyish disposition. Not to mention that the book turns out to be The Railway Children, and the murder spree is railway-guide-themed.
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The ABC Murders / int_8e3980c7	type	Mistaken Nationality
The ABC Murders / int_8e3980c7	comment	Mistaken Nationality: Poirot gets mistaken for French, which annoys him greatly. Part of the ongoing Running Gag.
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The ABC Murders / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The ABC Murders / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The killer initially reacts to being exposed with grace and dignity... until Poirot reveals that he's emptied the gun he was planning to use to kill himself in order to escape justice. This provokes a tantrum.
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The ABC Murders / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The ABC Murders / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The murderer tries to commit suicide after The Reveal, preferring to go out quickly rather than go through the inevitable execution, but Poirot prevents this, saying that the murderer doesn't deserve an easy death.
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The ABC Murders / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The ABC Murders / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Within the opening pages of this novel, Hastings suggests that the next time he sees Poirot, he will be wearing a fake moustache. In Curtain, the last Poirot novel, Poirot dons a false moustache, which becomes key to understanding the murder. When Poirot describes to Hastings what he sees as an ideal murder case, he gives the premise of Cards on the Table, which is released a few months after this book. Within the book itself, Poirot uses the metaphor of a roulette wheel to explain his belief that sooner or later, "black always changes to red"—in other words, luck will always run out. As the team heads out to investigate in Dorchester, Poirot, who is spinning such a wheel, happily cries that red has come up. Some subtle but very effective foreshadowing is supplied by a psychiatrist whom Scotland Yard consults: the psychiatrist happily wonders how will the killer deal with the letter 'X' - it'd be rather difficult to find a person with the initials X.X. living in a town the name of which starts with an X in England. Readers will see this as a small bit of characterisation, an absent-minded scientist focused only on his field. It's actually a hint that the murderer never intended to carry his theme all the way through the alphabet. He only wanted to kill 'C' and planned on stopping after 'D' (who was really a random victim killed to throw the police off the scent), so he didn't need to come up with an X victim. When suggesting ways to get the waitress Milly Higley to tell them what she knows, Poirot suggests that Donald Fraser flirt with her. When the latter rejects this, Franklin Clarke offers to "try his hand" with her instead, saying that he has wide experience in the area. Later, it's revealed that that was exactly what he did with Betty Barnard, flirting with her in order to lure her into a spot where he could kill her. Early in the book, Hastings mentions offhand that most of the crimes he and Poirot see are "private crimes", between family members and such, rather than the apparently "public" crimes of ABC. Later on, it's revealed that the true crime was between brothers over inheritance, and the others were committed to conceal that this was, indeed, a very "private crime."
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The ABC Murders / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The ABC Murders / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: While telling Hastings what he's been up to, Poirot says he briefly retired to grow vegetable marrows (as he did in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). Poirot also tells Hastings that he himself once almost got murdered. That happened in Three Act Tragedy. Inspector Japp sarcastically notes that Poirot has been involved in "train murders" (The Mystery of the Blue Train) and "air murders" (Death in the Clouds). Poirot and Hastings have a conversation about murders, and Poirot mentions the main one in Cards on the Table.
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The ABC Murders / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
The ABC Murders / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: The page quote, but subverted with the line that comes after.
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The ABC Murders / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
The ABC Murders / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: The fourth murder is committed in a cinema. The murderer leaves in the middle of the film, pretends to stumble, leans forward and stabs a man, who dies instantly, without making a sound. (Although Poirot suggests the victim was asleep when he was stabbed.)
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The ABC Murders / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
The ABC Murders / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: Lampshaded at the beginning when Poirot and Hastings talk about murder mysteries, and Hastings says that it's good if a story has more than one murder, because otherwise it could get boring. (And in fact in this book there are four murders.)
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The ABC Murders / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The ABC Murders / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: After examining the first murder scene, Poirot notes that they are not in a Sherlock Holmes story, and the killer was not so considerate as to smoke a cigarette that could be identified from the ashes at the crime scene, and then step in the ashes with shoes bearing a unique tread pattern.
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The ABC Murders / int_b6d3e6fc	type	Smokescreen Crime
The ABC Murders / int_b6d3e6fc	comment	Smokescreen Crime: The villain decided to murder his rich, childless, soon-to-be-widowed brother, whose name and city of residence both begin with the letter C. To hide this fact, the villain first murders people whose names and cities match A and B, respectively.
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The ABC Murders / int_b778066b	type	Connect the Deaths
The ABC Murders / int_b778066b	comment	Connect the Deaths: Used as a red herring—the killer only wanted to murder one person, and created the "alphabet name" scheme to create a pattern where one didn't exist.
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The ABC Murders / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The ABC Murders / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Invoked, as the killer deliberately sought victims whose names matched their towns, A to Z. In fact, in the first three murders, the victims have completely alliterative names: Alice Ascher, Elizabeth "Betty" Barnard, and Sir Carmichael Clarke. The "D" victim is named George Earlsfield, but the police assume the killer intended to kill a Mr. Roger Downes. But that didn't tip the police that the motive of killings didn't have anything to do with the alphabet...
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The ABC Murders / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
The ABC Murders / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: according to Alexander Bonaparte Cust, "...My mother was very fond of me. But she was ambitious- terribly ambitious. That's why she gave me those ridiculous names...."
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The ABC Murders / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The ABC Murders / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Cust remembers a famous quote, which is actually from narrative poem Pippa Passes: "God's in his heaven, all's right with the world."
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The ABC Murders / int_c895f927	type	Criminal Mind Games
The ABC Murders / int_c895f927	comment	Criminal Mind Games: The killer definitely leans this way, but it's not a primary motive.
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The ABC Murders / int_d259fea2	type	Speak Ill of the Dead
The ABC Murders / int_d259fea2	comment	Speak Ill of the Dead: When he talks to Megan Barnard, Poirot picks up on how she described her sister to Hastings and encourages her against it, telling that it's of little practical importance to him. "Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased." [...] I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me - the truth." Megan eventually responds by describing her sister as "an unmitigated little ass!"
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The ABC Murders / int_d62184c3	type	Theme Serial Killer
The ABC Murders / int_d62184c3	comment	Theme Serial Killer: The killer apparently chooses their targets based on the letters of the alphabets, first killing an old lady with the last initial of A in a town beginning with A, then a young woman named B in a B location, and an elderly man named C in a C town.
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The ABC Murders / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The ABC Murders / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: There's a Serial Killer who nicknames themselves A.B.C. There's also a suspicious character who not only has A.B.C. as their initials, but has been at the murder locations during the time of the murder. Of course, they're just a scapegoat used by the actual killer to cover their tracks.
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The ABC Murders / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
The ABC Murders / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: The murderer confesses after Poirot mentions he left fingerprints on Cust's typewriter. Discussing the case later with Hastings, Poirot admits that there was no fingerprint: "I put that in to please you, mon ami."
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The ABC Murders / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: After the third ABC letter arrives late, having been wrongly addressed, Hastings wonders if it was misaddressed on purpose. Inspector Crome dismisses the idea, convinced that a serial killer wouldn't break their pattern for any reason, and Hastings doesn't think about it any further, but Poirot eventually realises the killer did intend for this, because they wanted to ensure the "C" murder would go off without a hitch.
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The ABC Murders / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The ABC Murders / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Lady Clarke most probably rightly suspects that Thora Grey might be buttering up to her husband, Carmichael, and that he'd probably marry her after she dies. She immediately sends her away when Michael is killed. This ends up being important to the motive of the murderer: If Thora had married Sir Carmichael and perhaps had children, Franklin would not have inherited his brother's money.
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The ABC Murders / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
The ABC Murders / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: After the third murder, Poirot puts together a group to solve the murders, consisting of himself, Hastings, and one or two people close to each of the victims. One of these is Franklin Clarke,the murderer.
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The ABC Murders / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: One chapter ends with the Assistant Commissioner wondering where Cust is "at this exact moment." The first sentence of the next chapter has Cust standing outside a greengrocer's.
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