The Murder on the Links is an early, 1923 Hercule Poirot mystery novel by Agatha Christie. It sets up the polite, emotionally-discerning Belgian detective against Giraud, a young French counterpart who emphasizes physical evidence and regards Poirot and his methods with contempt. Also, the narrator, Poirot's companion Captain Hastings, plays a very similar role to the Dr. Watson character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series as Poirot is continually trying to teach him...usually unsuccessfully...to reason out the case and put the clues together. This case involves a murder, naturally...the victim is an Englishman living in France who had enlisted Poirot's help by letter. But when Poirot and Hastings arrive at his estate near Calais, the investigators are already there as he has just been murdered, his body lying face-down in an open grave on the site of a new golf course outside his home. Suspicious characters abound in this whodunnit tale, and the ending is wholly satisfying and explains all...
Looks as if I'm going to be reading a lot of Agatha Christie in future weeks as I have become hooked on these stories, trying to figure out the mystery's solution along with Detective Poirot or whoever happens to be the protagonist. For now, though, I have some other novels in line to read, the next being Turtles All the Way Down, a story about obsessive-compulsive disorder by John Green...
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