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1. Perhaps Christie's dumbest killer is Simon Doyle from "Death on the Nile". Even his accomplice Jackie knows he simply does not have the brains to kill his wife Linnet. In fact, at one point he actually saves Linnet's life when someone else tries to kill her. How does Simon save her life?
2. Like so many of Christie's victims, stupidity gets the better of this man. Which "And Then There Were None" character ignores the very obvious clue in the titular poem and gets swallowed by the red herring?
3. Another victim of less than stellar intelligence is which woman from "Cat Among the Pigeons", who thought it was a good idea to blackmail a killer?
4. It is always an incredibly stupid mistake to underestimate Hercule Poirot. It is an even stupider mistake to think you could manipulate him, as which killer attempts to do in "Peril at End House"?
5. One would think it would not be wise to send your own anonymous poison pen letter when the police are looking for a killer who flooded the town of Lymstock with such letters. But Aimee Griffith, in "The Moving Finger", who is neither the killer nor the original poison pen letter writer, just cannot resist the temptation to send her own. To whom does she write this letter that ultimately leads to her arrest?
6. Some killers appear to be very smart and go mostly unsuspected for long periods of time. But even these killers get tripped up over very simple mistakes. One of these is which killer from "Cards on the Table" who confesses after being told he was caught in the act, one of the oldest tricks in the book?
7. Poirot always laments that Hastings never uses his little grey cells properly. Such was the case in "Curtain", when Hastings was nearly manipulated into killing which person?
8. It's never a good idea to announce loudly that you once witnessed a murder. It's an even worse idea to do this when you actually haven't witnessed the murder. But young Joyce Reynolds did just that and found herself drowned in the apple tub in which Poirot novel?,
9. Just like it is a huge blunder to try and manipulate Poirot, the same goes for the killer who brings Miss Marple into the case and tries to fool her. Mrs. Protheroe in "Murder at the Vicarage" makes it very clear she doesn't have a weapon on her shortly before her husband is shot. But this is exactly what makes her suspicious to Miss Marple. Why?
10. Rare is the occasion where Hercule Poirot does something stupid, but he considers one of his biggest blunders to have occurred when he failed to ask questions of Ellis in which of his mysteries?
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