Analysis Of The ABC Murders By Agatha Christie

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Murder is the most sinister of any crime you can commit as you are taking life away from someone who isn't ready to go. It is especially irrational when murder is carried out with no motive. This could only be the work of a madman. With crime people seek justice and will make their best efforts to achieve it. In the ABC Murders by Agatha Christie we explore the mystery of not one, but four murders carried out meticulously and with proper planning. In this novel we get to see the solving process of an interesting murder case through two private detectives who have gotten back together after some time apart in retirement. We get to see how they are able to think like a murder and determine the motives and planning behind the crimes.
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This puppet was a man named Alexander Bonaparte Cust, who was an epileptic war veteran who had lapses in memory. This was the perfect man to use in Franklin Clarke's evil plan. His end goal was to make Cust seem like a madman by killing random people in alphabetical order while killing his brother when he got to the letter c. He wanted Cust to get caught in the end so there was no chance for Franklin Clarke to be caught for his crimes. It was a pretty ingenious plan as a matter of fact. However there were loopholes that Poirot was able to exploit in the end. Such as forgetting that even though Cust was mental that he had no motive and was not that clever to carry out a plan quiet as sophisticated as the one Franklin Clarke thought up. When Franklin Clarke was caught in the end Poirot had one final victory over him when Franklin tried to kill himself. The pistol that Franklin tried to use was empty by Poirot’s doing. Poirot wanted Franklin to suffer as he was going to let Cust suffer, living out the rest of his days in …show more content…

This lead to the next major theme, which is motive. Throughout most of the novel the motive was unclear until the very end when it is revealed who the killer is. This is because their was no connection between the people who were dying other than their names and locations. It turned out that Franklin Clarke had no motive for the murders of the victims other than his brother, but than just sticking to his plan. His motive for killing his brother sir Carmichael Clarke was from jealousy and greed. He wanted to obtain his brother’s wealth rather than have his brother live and

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