Elephants Can Remember

Elephants Can Remember
Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict…Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies – a husband and wife – shot dead.But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that ‘old sin leave long shadows’.

Elephants Can Remember

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Source ISBN: 9780008164973

Ebook Edition © September 2016 ISBN: 9780007422319

Version: 2017-04-12

Dedication (#uf19abab8-b73d-586d-8e6d-85279e8b09a6)

To Molly Myers

in return for many kindnesses

Table of Contents

Cover (#u17fcc83b-7ccb-5cf7-b0d7-37da97bad798)

Title Page (#u03159715-4179-510c-b1e6-84c497583d24)

Copyright (#u2a1dd72a-464e-5b6d-bc29-f9f379e95e12)

Dedication (#u65340e48-3376-536c-99a4-2be036db80c1)

Chapter 1: A Literary Luncheon (#ucca0ebb2-c5f3-55e1-8ece-92c730cb93e1)

Chapter 2: First Mention of Elephants (#uc04b6175-40fb-5598-a0c1-73dadf19f4a2)

Book 1: Elephants (#u7e50e929-ffd2-5e9f-aff3-f0d41ee8d84c)

Chapter 3: Great Aunt Alice’s Guide to Knowledge (#u6697f8f5-4a45-57b3-883c-d1b0d220e93d)

Chapter 4: Celia (#ueb446f3f-88bd-5d87-a62e-d064272e9fbb)

Chapter 5: Old Sins Have Long Shadows (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6: An Old Friend Remembers (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7: Back to the Nursery (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8: Mrs Oliver at Work (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9: Results of Elephantine Research (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10: Desmond (#litres_trial_promo)

Book 2: Long Shadows (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Superintendent Garroway and Poirot Compare Notes (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: Celia Meets Hercule Poirot (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: Mrs Burton-Cox (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: Dr Willoughby (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15: Eugene and Rosentelle, Hair Stylists and Beauticians (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16: Mr Goby Reports (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17: Poirot Announces Departure (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18: Interlude (#litres_trial_promo)