Daring with Hercule Poirot shows first of all daring, impudence, courage. Because the good of Hercules lived and was immortalized from his more than thirty novels in the handwriting of Agatha Christie. And that can arouse the suspicion of passionate staunch readers, capable of taking you home and tying you to the foot of their bed as a penance if they don't end up liking any kind of adaptation ...
But it is also true that there are times of resurrection of myths. We started in music years ago with the cover bands of Queen Hasta Héroes del Silencio and splashed the issue on emblematic characters of literature such as Sherlock Holmes o Oak recovered for the cause by two Spanish firms that are discovered in the links of their names.
Today it is the turn of a Sophie Hannah also British as the creator of Poirot, and with a consolidated literary career in a black genre combined even with poetry. The result can therefore be a poetic justice for an unforgettable character in the world criminal imaginary ...
Synopsis
Hercule Poirot travels in a luxurious coach to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill mansion: Richard Devonport has asked him for help to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank, despite the fact that she herself has confessed to the crime. On the way, a young woman suffers a nervous breakdown and demands to get out: she claims that if she remains in her seat she will be killed. A seat change is arranged and the remainder of the trip is uneventful.
However, Poirot has a bad feeling; their fears are confirmed when a body is discovered in the Devonport house with a note referring to the "seat it shouldn't have sat in." Could this murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? Can Poirot find the real murderer?
You can now buy the novel "The Kingfisher Hill Murders", by Sophie Hannah, here: