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LauraPoirot 14 Jun 11 at 12:20 p.m. GMT

Hey could anybody help me? I've got to do a book presentation for school and I'd like to choose a Hercule Poirot novel. But it's so difficult to decide which one's the best for a presentation! At my home in Germany  almost none of my classmates know AC or Poirot so it should be a fascinating one with an unexpected ending, so that I probably can elate them to read AC novels.

I just tried The ABC Murders but it's actually hard cause I want them to guess the murderer before telling the real ending.

Which one would you choose? Perhaps you have a better idea...

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LauraPoirot 06 Aug 11 at 8:59 a.m. GMT

Yes a Girl did. She said probably its (Name of the Murderer) because it's always the One you think about less. I justcl answerd "maybe" :)

ace_of_spades 06 Aug 11 at 2:39 a.m. GMT

I did a presentation in school based on the life and works of Agatha Christie-- It was great fun and wonderful to educate others on Agatha and her novels.:)

That sounds like so much fun, LauraPoirot, and I LOVED the novel FIVE LITTLE PIGS! I think it's one of my favorites... Congratulations on a job well done! Did any of your class mates guess the murderer correctly?

LauraPoirot 06 Jul 11 at 1:12 p.m. GMT

Thank You! and the best of it was: It was really fun! I never had more fun by preparing and holding a presentation=)

GKCfan 06 Jul 11 at 5:54 a.m. GMT

Congratulations!

LauraPoirot 05 Jul 11 at 3:02 p.m. GMT

Thank You once More!!! I helt it today and everybody was glowing! I've got an A for it and many requests if they can borrow the book and who the murderer was. But I didn't tell them =)

This was really a great idea!

LauraPoirot 18 Jun 11 at 9:50 p.m. GMT

I planned to write it on a transparency for the overhead projector ,anyway.but a poster is also a good idea or i could print it for anyone so that they have it theirselfs...

however thank you once again! those are all really good ideas! I'll see how to play them out.

GKCfan 18 Jun 11 at 8:07 p.m. GMT

I'm wondering if it might help to make a visual diorama to help explain what's going on.  If you wrote out the events one by one in chronological order on a poster that might help make the presentation easier. 

LauraPoirot 18 Jun 11 at 11 a.m. GMT

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thank you I wasn't sure if she was fifteen or thirteen.

I've got between 15 to 20 minutes time.

I've just translated my summary into English. Please excuse the mistakes I've made. My English is not the best and I'm not sure about the quotations. they may be not like the real phrases in your book.

As Meredith wakes up this morning , he hears a sound in the laboratory. he thinks it was a cat, which came through the half-opened window.- At the same time in Alderbury Caroline and Amyas have an argument, in which Caroline says, she is going to kill him. - thereafter Elsa is asked harsh by her lover to come with him to the redoubt (don't know how it's called in the book, in the German version it's "Schanze". The place where Amyas portrays Elsa) to portray her. Elsa fetches her pullover and goes there. - In the meantime, Meredith , on his way to the laboratory, meets miss Williams, who is looking for Angela. - Meredith discovers that the bottle of coniine is half-empty and calls his brother to discuss the matter. - Miss Williams finds Angela at the private reserve beer of Amyas with a guilty look. - As the Blakes are passing under the redoubt , they hear the Crales arguing. Amyas says: " I'm even gonna pack up for her" - CAroline notices the two brothers and explaines they were just talking about Angelas departure to boarding school - later,Caroline gets his husband a beer Angela pours it and Amyas who drinks says: "today, everything tastes lousy" - Mrs Crale goes back into the house and behaves at dinner very normal.Amyas doesn't eat anything because he doesn't want to break his work. - after drinking coffee at the terrace Mrs Crale finds the body of her husband and sends the gouverness for a doctor. Miss Williams sees how Caroline presses the hand of her husband onto the bottle of beer.

I know it's much to much but I'm not sure what to cut out...

GKCfan 17 Jun 11 at 9:24 p.m. GMT

Angela was fifteen at the time of the murder.

How much time do you have for your presentation?  The events of the day of the murder could probably be summed up in just five or six sentences.

LauraPoirot 16 Jun 11 at 4:01 p.m. GMT

Is it too boring or too long when I do a reconstruction of the day of murder just as a part of the summary?

LauraPoirot 15 Jun 11 at 5:11 p.m. GMT

one more question:

how old is Angela Warren when Amyas is murdered?

LauraPoirot 15 Jun 11 at 8:36 a.m. GMT

Thanks! I thought of taking After The Funeral  but maybe too many of my classmates do know the film version and so it could get boring. Cards on the Table was my first idea but then I noticed that I only own the English version and for a German lesson IN Germany... well I don't think this is what our teachers had imagined. But with Five Little Pigs, I think I did a good choice. The German title is btw "Das unvollendete Bildnis".

Again Thank you very much! I'll start right now with the preparing.

GKCfan 15 Jun 11 at 4:21 a.m. GMT

Well, Cards on the Table might be a good choice because there are only four suspects, or possibly Five Little Pigs which has five.  Both are great books that mght make for interesting presentations.

LauraPoirot 14 Jun 11 at 3:18 p.m. GMT

Would be happy if someone could answer soon!

hey just got The complete short stories Hercule Poirot 878 pages! 51 Stories!

Never felt this happy because of a book!