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Read The Murder on the Links in English, with German beside it
by Agatha Christie · 1890–1976
"The Murder on the Links" by Agatha Christie is a detective novel published in 1923. Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to northern France to meet a client, only to discover he's been murdered and buried beside a golf course. Facing a hostile rival from the Paris Sûreté, Poirot must untangle a web of blackmail, false identities, and a decades-old crime. As Hastings falls unexpectedly in love, the case reveals that nothing is as it seems.
Summary generated automatically by Project Gutenberg.
- Read time
- 294 min
- Words
- 64,611
- Chapters
- 1
- Paragraphs
- 2,659
- Price
- Free
- Detective and mystery stories
- Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
“One was very tall, and had a long black beard, the other was short and stout.
„Der eine war sehr groß und hatte einen langen schwarzen Bart, der andere war klein und stämmig.
His beard was reddish.
Sein Bart war rötlich.
They both wore hats pulled down over their eyes.”
Beide trugen Hüte, die sie weit über die Augen gezogen hatten.“
About the author
Agatha Christie1890–1976
Agatha Christie was an English writer born in 1890 in Torquay and died in 1976 in Winterbrook.
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Book details
- Original language
- English
- Translation
- German, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #58866
- Licence
- Public domain in the United States
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