As you see from the title, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly is a detective story written by Agatha Christie. First she wrote the book The Dead Man’s Folly in 1954. It was published in 1956. This book I read, was a shorter version of The Dead Man’s Folly. I think the expanded version would have been more exciting. This was bored for the detective story.
The main character was ”surprisingly” M. Hercule Poirot. If you don’t know Poirot yet, he is Belgian detective and the most famous character alongside Miss Marple. Poirot is found in a total of 33 novels and 54 short stories. In my mind Poirot has a bit different manners than in the other books I’ve read. He is mealy-mouthed. As in the other Agatha Christie’s books many people goes to live in the same house at the same time and Poirot doesn’t know the people well. He’s also invited. Then happens murders when he’s in the house but he never see what really happens. It’s absolutely strange how he guesses everything and people tell the truth to him almost immediately.
The story teller is unknown and it didn’t knew all the things some characters didn’t. The language of the text is variable. Some of the people speak different even if their native language is english and some others are foreigners. This one is from book: ”They du say, too, as her du be wanting up here.” Some words I’ve just have never even heard, like ”bewilderment” and ”battlemented”.
The book says that Agatha Christie wrote the book to help raise money for her local church at Churston Ferrers, The Greenshore Folly novella was ultimately never published in it’s original form. Instead, it became the basis for one of her favourite novels, Dead Man’s Folly.
It was really nice to read in english! I will read other books in english at my own time because it was easier than I thought. The book was a bad choice, I would rather read Harry Potter or Doctor Who -books. Still reading book in english was a good experience. I saw how much I understand.