Poirot notes four key facts about the case: a piece of lead piping is found near the body only three female servants were in the villa as both Renauld's son Jack and his chauffeur had been sent away an unknown person visited the day before and Renauld's immediate neighbour, Madame Daubreuil, had placed 200,000 francs into her bank account over recent weeks. Monsieur Giraud of the Sûreté leads the police investigation, and resents Poirot's involvement. Upon inspecting his body, Eloise collapses with grief at seeing her dead husband. His wife, Eloise Renauld, claims masked men broke into the villa at 2 am, tied her up, and took her husband away with them. When they arrive, local police greet them with the news that Renauld was found dead that morning, stabbed in the back with a knife and left in a newly dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.

Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help. Remarking on Poirot, still a new character, one reviewer said he was 'a pleasant contrast to most of his lurid competitors and one even suspects a touch of satire in him.' Reviews when it was published compared Mrs Christie favourably to Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. parcelling off Hastings to wedded bliss in the Argentine.' The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development 'greatly desired on Agatha's part. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6), and the US edition at $1.75. It is the second novel featuring Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923, and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May of the same year.

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