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Your favorite ending

mirror 21 Mar 09 at 5:57 a.m. GMT

The impression on a book is based on various aspects such as characters, the plot, and setting.  How the author brings the story into the very end is also one of the important elements to form the readers impressions.  And I would like to know  which of the AC books you think have good, clever, or impressive endings. What's your favorite ending? Try to give reasons!

Me:  Cards on the Table  I love the conclusion that the one who is honest can only remains as he is. The ABC Murders  I love the critical end. Poirot does not settle for the result of the "murder" presenting himself.

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Nofret 12 May 12 at 5:01 a.m. GMT

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Endless Night. How different from Christie's earlier novels, which end with everyone pairing off and living happily ever after.

The killer's soul is turned inside out, and he's left alone with his self-knowledge in bleakness and misery.

Belgian_Bulldog 03 May 12 at 9:14 p.m. GMT

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Nemesis, hands down -- the late-night confrontation with Clotilde Bradbury-Scott would be reason enough for it to be my favorite, but the scene in which Miss Marple recaps the whole affair to the Home Secretary, the Assistant Commisioner of Scotland Yard, et al is priceless for the officials' reaction to the seemingly harmless spinster (Sir Andrew: "That old lady gives me the creeps.").  It really is, in my opinion, a perfect send-off from the author for a beloved character.

mizscarlett 02 May 12 at 4:29 p.m. GMT

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so hard to choose one but i really did like the ending to they came to baghdad...the whole time i thought there was something fishy about edward,just didnt realize how big the operation turned out to be! and then there was the switch with anna scheele..that was a nice unexpected twist at the end. overall a fantastic read

SpearmintHippo 09 Apr 12 at 7:09 p.m. GMT

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"And then there were none" has got to be one of the best endings ever written and it has spawned a whole raft of copycat stories!

Tommy_A_Jones 09 Apr 12 at 2:21 p.m. GMT

I like the ending of Three-Act Tragedy when it occurs to both Satterthwaite and Poirot they could both have been the 1st Victim.

Matillies 23 Mar 09 at 12:55 a.m. GMT

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I thought that the ending of Murder on the Orient Express was really imaginative. Only Agatha Christie can come up with a complicated plot where everyone committed the murder yet no-one did. I have been reading it for years and I still have no idea how he solved it.

Also, the ending of Death on the Nile was put in a way that it is blindly obvious yet you never see it coming. The more I read it, the more I think, how did I not figure it out?

The Murder of Roger Akroyd was, quite frankly, teriffic. Who would have guessed it was the Doctor who was telling the story. Then again, it's always the doctor, or the butler.