Agatha Christie 
The Murder on the Links 

Originally published in 1923, ‘The Murder on the Links’ is a profound detective story by Agatha Christie, an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie’s remarkable sleuth Hercule Poirot returns only to find his would-be employer slain, too many suspects, and his refined investigative technique disregarded by the detective leading the local police investigation. The two butt heads, competing to solve the crime until a second corpse turns up, slain in the exact same fashion as the first.

It takes Poirot’s razor-keen understanding and deep knowledge of the history of crime to tie both killings to another as he brilliantly works toward an unpredictable conclusion. Upon its original publication, the novel was greeted with great glory as a superbly structured mystery that was all but certain to baffle readers.