Another book from Agatha Christie's Poirot series.
Title: Elephants can Remember
Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN13: 9780007299652
Recurring Characters: Ariadne Oliver, Hercule Poirot, Superintendent Spence, Mr. Goby
Elephants Can Remember, although understood as an old saying of how elephants do remember things despite years have passed, is used by the mystery writer, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, as a metaphor of people who know and remember certain events that once happened long time ago. Elephants Can Remember starts in a quite similar fashion as Five Little Pigs with Celia Ravenscroft, a young lady who wanted to know the truth behind her parents death 12 years ago. Her parents had been found dead, shot by a gun found not far from them. On the gun, other than the deceased's, no other fingerprints had been found and the case was closed and accepted as a double suicide by the court. Wanting to know the truth before starting a new family with her love, Desmond, Celia agreed to let her godmother, Mrs. Oliver and M. Poirot help her in revealing the truth and once again, Poirot has to go back to the past to trace all the evidence and "elephants" related to the tragedy. Was it a murder or was it, as everyone believed it was, a pact suicide?
Not a very thrilling plot as the case is a "past" case and a very straightforward one, no twist or anything unexpected. On top of that, the past tragedy doesn't really give much impact to anyone's life afterwards. It's like a "So I finally arrive at the truth and now I can marry happily" sort of ending for Celia.
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