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Simppu12 t1_j1re2ak wrote

It's been a while since I've read them, but Cards on the Table annoyed me the most with it as >!Poirot hires an actor at the end to bait the killer or something!<, but I feel like it happens in most Poirot novels. In Orient Express, for example, there is the part where it's noted that >!a bag wasn't actually covering a lock!<, which is fair enough, but it's hardly enough to deduce who the killer is.

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My_Poor_Nerves t1_j1rix8b wrote

I think Poirot's tricks to out the killer were usually moreso to get an admission of guilt in front of an audience than to actually figure out who done it

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