Poirot
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They were all, it seemed, under the sway of this absurd little man with the big moustaches.
(Page 265)
A novel that bored me for a while, but in the second part, when Poirot returns on the scene, it was able to compensate!
Quotes
In every club there is a club bore. The Coronation Club was no exception; and the fact that an air raid was in progress made no difference to normal procedure.
[incipit]
'I have heard of you, M. Poirot,' and Poirot made an unsuccessful attempt to look modest.
(Page 179)
Into an atmosphere quivering with danger Hercule Poirot brought his own atmosphere of deliberate anticlimax.
'The kettle, it is boiling?' he inquired.
(Page 263)
"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune..."
Poirot quote the Shakespeare's verse used in the titla of the novel
(Page 276)
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