Hercule Poirot · Book 20

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

by Agatha Christie

Published
1 January 1940
Pages
208
ISBN-13
9780563524069
Type
novel

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Cover of One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

About this book

"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" (1940, 208 pages) is the 19th entry in Christie's Poirot series, built on the same fair-play formula throughout: clues planted in plain sight for an attentive reader to (in theory) beat the detective to the solution.

Its place in Hercule Poirot

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is book 20 in the Hercule Poirot series. It follows Sad Cypress. It is followed by Evil Under the Sun. See the full Hercule Poirot reading order.

Hercule Poirot is the fastidious, egg-headed Belgian detective who solves murders with his "little grey cells" rather than legwork — a private inquiry agent, former Belgian policeman, and refugee of the First World War who settles in England and becomes the most famous fictional detective after Sherlock Holmes. Agatha Christie built the character across 33 novels and dozens of short stories between 1920 and 1975, perfecting the fair-play puzzle mystery: a closed circle of suspects, a country house or a locked…

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