The Christie Murder Atlas Trivia Quiz

Answer: Murder on the Links

Paul Renauld may have been very rich but he was also very desperate when he sent that letter to Hercule Poirot in London--and it got action, too. Poirot and his friend Capt. Hastings hurried off but arrived only in time to avenge a "Murder On The Links" (1923). It was in the course of his usual bumbling about that faithful Hastings met his "Cinderella".

Answer: Appointment With Death

On his first night in Jerusalem, the words "You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" drift through Hercule Poirot's open window and later seem to have been an omen of events which culminate at Petra in "Appointment With Death" (1938). Nasty old Mrs. Boynton, who kept her family trapped in her web like a bloated, sadistic spider, was really a piece of work, wasn't she?

Answer: Luxembourg

Rosemary Barton committed suicide by toasting her birthday with a cyanide and champagne cocktail at London's posh Luxembourg restaurant--or did she? That is what her younger sister, Iris Marle, hopes to find out by recreating the fateful dinner party a year later in "Remembered Death" (1945) also published as "Sparkling Cyanide".

Answer: The Apple Trees

Mrs. Oliver was visiting her friend Judith Butler in Woodleigh Common when Joyce Reynolds, a 13-year old with a vivid imagination, boasted to her about witnessing a murder. Joyce was a show-off so only one person believed her--the one who later that evening held the child's head down in a large bucket of water at a children's party hosted by Mrs. Drake at The Apple Trees.

It was a particularly nasty crime and Mrs. Oliver hurried back to London to fetch Hercule Poirot to help her solve the mystery of the "Hallowe'en Party".

Answer: Smuggler's Island

It was late summer and Hercule Poirot was on holiday at the Jolly Roger Hotel, an exclusive resort on Smuggler's Island off the English coast, where the monied relaxed and played under the sun. As the title says, Poirot also found "Evil Under The Sun" in this very entertaining 1941 Christie mystery.

Answer: Little Paddock, Chipping Cleghorn

When Miss Letitia Blacklock's friends read the following item in the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette: "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 pm", they naturally show up at her door ready for an innocent evening of murder role playing. Things become really complicated when a real body turns up and Miss Blacklock denies ever placing the announcement in the Gazette at all! Miss Marple is in the neighborhood and soon helps Detective Craddock sort out the mystery in "A Murder Is Announced" (1950).

Answer: Stonygates

Sisters Ruth Van Rydock and Carrie Louise Serrocold had been friends of Miss Marple's since their school days. Ruth was very concerned about Carrie Louise, so Miss Marple set off at once to Stonygates to check on her old friend. All was not well at Stonygates as Miss Marple found out when a murder was committed which reminded Miss Marple of a conjuror's trick done with mirrors in "Murder With Mirrors" (1952) also published as "They Do It With Mirrors".

Answer: N or M

Tommy, sans Tuppence, was supposed to be taking a routine job pushing papers for Mr. Grant of British Intelligence in Scotland. His actual mission was to decipher a Nazi plot in Leahampton surrounding the murder of a British secret agent. Arriving at the Sans Souci Hotel, whose name seemed part of a code, who should Tommy meet but Mrs Blenkensop (aka Tuppence)! Together the duo face danger and intrigue to solve the case of "N or M" (1941). Tuppence and Tommy fans know that the pair's first outing was in "Secret Adversary' way back in 1922 and their final mystery was "Postern of Fate" (1974).

Answer: Towards Zero (aka "Come and Be Hanged")

Who wanted Lady Camilla dead badly enough to bash her on the head at Gull Point, her seaside home? Was it Neville Strange, her stepson? He had a £50,000 motive and all the evidence, perhaps too much evidence, pointed straight at him. It was up to Superintendent Battle to sift through the clues and the red herrings and solve "Towards Zero" (1944) aka "Come and Be Hanged".

Answer: False

Lord Edgeware's body was found in the library of his London home in this 1933 Hercule Poirot mystery. Is thirteen an unlucky number to have gathered around the dining table? It seemed awfully lucky for actress Jane Wilkinson when she was one of thirteen present at Sir Montague Corner's dinner party at the time her estranged husband was being murdered--and a person can't be in two places at once, can they? Betram's Hotel was just a red herring as fans of Miss Marple's "At Betram's Hotel" (1965) already know. I do hope you had fun taking "The Christie Murder Atlas:.