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I have finished reading “The ABC Murders” in English. I think that it was one of the most interesting mystery stories. However, some French word appeared in the story, so it was difficult to understand for me. Also, there were a lot of characters and human relationships were little bit complicated, so it made me difficult to understand, too. The real murderer wasn’t found out by the last of the story. I was very surprised when I knew the real murderer, because I didn’t expect it. I’d like to read other mystery stories in English to improve my English skills.

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Poirot found out that there was the new murderer. It was Franklin Clarke, who was a brother of third victim. So, ABC, the man who wrote the letters and committed the crimes, was Franklin Clarke. Because he was seriously alarmed for the future and his chance of inheriting his brother’s wealth would vanish. He was bitterly jealous his brother’s wealth. And his meeting with Mr. Cust gave him an idea. His bombastic Christian names, his account of his epileptic seizures and of his headaches, his whole shrinking and insignificant personality, struck him as fitting him for the tool he wanted. Surprisingly, Franklin Clarke killed three people to kill his brother and get brother’s wealth. What’s more, he used Mr. Cust for his murders. Poirot found that he left a fingerprint on Cust’s typewriter. If he was innocent, he could have handled it.

 

Finally, Franklin Clarke said “You win, Mr. Poirot. But it was worth trying.”

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Poirot decided to meet the murderer, Alexander Bonaparte Cust. The interview that took place between two men was absolutely private and they talked face to face. Mr. Cust seemed to have shrunk. His stoop was more apparent and his fingers grabbed his coat. It must have been a dramatic moment. this meeting of the two adversaries in the long drama. When they were talking each other, Mr. Cust’s tone was polite but not very interested. He seemed absorbed in some inner abstraction.

“Do you know who I am? I am Hercule Poirot. I am the man to whom you wrote the letters.” Poirot said. Mr. Cust dropped his eyes and spoke irritably and fretfully. “I never wrote to you. Those letters weren’t written by me. I’ve said so again and again.” “But if you did not write them, who did?” “An enemy did. I must have an enemy. They are all against me. The police was against me.” His talk was strange and he also said that he’d got hardly enough to keep body and soul together. The last question of Poirot was “Do you know that you committed the murders?” The murderer said, “Yes, I know.” “You didn’t know why you did them, did you?” “No.”

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A murderer was arrested in this chapter.

His name was Alexander Bonaparte Cust. He was forty and he wasn’t a man, like who killed a fly. He stayed at the Pitt, small hotel near Torre Station. He returned to the Hotel at 10:30 on the night of the murder. So he could have taken a train from Churston at 9:57, getting to Torre at 10:20. Bexhill was much the same. Stayed at the Globe under his own name. He offered stockings to about a dozen addresses, including Mrs. Bornard and including the Ginger Cat. Then he left hotel early in the evening. He arrived back in London about 11:30 the following morning. As to Andover, same prpcedure. He stayed at the Feathers. He offered stockings to Mrs. Fowler, next door to Mrs. Ascher, and to half a dozen other people in the street.

However, Poirot and Hastings didn’t still know why he committed four murders and why he sent letters to Poirot.