Book Review: Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

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If all the Poirot books are going to be narrated by Hastings, it's going to be a long slog. While TV!Hastings is a charming doofus with a soft heart and an inflated sense of honor, book!Hastings is a prig and an insufferable bore. I know it's fiction, but who falls so in love with a woman you've met a grand total of twice, a woman who lies to you and abuses your trust, that you'd betray your best friend to help her escape the justice that, at that point, is due? This dolt, apparently. Oh, there's some token, morose maundering about having the death of an innocent man on his conscience, but he doesn't do anything about it other than hector the friend he has betrayed to save the hapless Jack Renauld from the guillotine. Because what else is Poirot for than to clean up his mess? All foreigners should know their place and excuse an Englishman's folly as long as it was committed for honorable reasons.

If Hastings died of cholera, I wouldn't be sorry.

I did like that it was Dulcie who saved the day with her l33t acrobatic skills. Maybe if Hastings does me a favor and pops his clogs, Dulcie can step into them, and she and Poirot can save the day together.