Elephants Can Remember: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Some secrets refuse to stay buried — and in Elephants Can Remember, the past resurfaces with lethal clarity. When crime writer Ariadne Oliver is confronted at a literary luncheon by a woman demanding answers about a long-ago double death — was it murder-suicide, or something darker? — she enlists her old friend, the legendary Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, to help her uncover the truth. Together, they seek out elderly acquaintances of the deceased couple, those elephants who never forget, and piece together a mosaic of buried memories, shifting loyalties, and carefully concealed motives surrounding the clifftop tragedy of General and Lady Ravenscroft. One of Agatha Christie's final Poirot novels, Elephants Can Remember stands as a meditation on memory, identity, and the unreliability of the past — themes that give the mystery an unusually melancholic and introspective weight. Christie's signature plotting — meticulous, deceptively light in touch, and devastating in its final reveal — is on full display, drawing the reader into a web of half-remembered truths and deliberate lies. With Poirot's little grey cells working at full capacity, the novel's chilling conclusion proves that what the mind chooses to remember can be just as dangerous as what it chooses to forget.
Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Paperback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Some secrets refuse to stay buried — and in Elephants Can Remember, the past resurfaces with lethal clarity. When crime writer Ariadne Oliver is confronted at a literary luncheon by a woman demanding answers about a long-ago double death — was it murder-suicide, or something darker? — she enlists her old friend, the legendary Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, to help her uncover the truth. Together, they seek out elderly acquaintances of the deceased couple, those elephants who never forget, and piece together a mosaic of buried memories, shifting loyalties, and carefully concealed motives surrounding the clifftop tragedy of General and Lady Ravenscroft. One of Agatha Christie's final Poirot novels, Elephants Can Remember stands as a meditation on memory, identity, and the unreliability of the past — themes that give the mystery an unusually melancholic and introspective weight. Christie's signature plotting — meticulous, deceptively light in touch, and devastating in its final reveal — is on full display, drawing the reader into a web of half-remembered truths and deliberate lies. With Poirot's little grey cells working at full capacity, the novel's chilling conclusion proves that what the mind chooses to remember can be just as dangerous as what it chooses to forget.