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Only the second of Agatha Christie's novels to feature Literature/HerculePoirot, ''The Murder on the Links'' was first published in 1923. Millionaire businessman Paul Renauld is found stabbed to death in an open grave in the golf course he was constructing. Poirot, who had received a letter from Renauld shortly before his death, tries to trace the murderer. There are several suspects: the widow who inherits Renauld's entire estate, the son who had recently quarreled with his father, the woman who might have been Renauld's mistress... However, the pattern of events in the murder of Renauld bear strong similarities to a case that happened 20 years ago. Is the same mind at work behind both cases?
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Only the second of Agatha Christie's novels to feature Literature/HerculePoirot, Franchise/HerculePoirot, ''The Murder on the Links'' was first published in 1923. Millionaire businessman Paul Renauld is found stabbed to death in an open grave in the golf course he was constructing. Poirot, who had received a letter from Renauld shortly before his death, tries to trace the murderer. There are several suspects: the widow who inherits Renauld's entire estate, the son who had recently quarreled with his father, the woman who might have been Renauld's mistress... However, the pattern of events in the murder of Renauld bear strong similarities to a case that happened 20 years ago. Is the same mind at work behind both cases?
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemInjury: Paul Renauld was stabbed in the heart, then beaten about the head with a lead pipe. [[spoiler: This was to disguise the fact that body in the grave was not Paul Renauld. For that matter, he was already dead before being stabbed.]]
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemInjury: ObfuscatingPostmortemWounds: Paul Renauld was stabbed in the heart, then beaten about the head with a lead pipe. [[spoiler: This was to disguise the fact that body in the grave was not Paul Renauld. For that matter, he was already dead before being stabbed.]]
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* ObfuscatingPostmortemInjury: Paul Renauld was stabbed in the heart, then beaten about the head with a lead pipe. [[spoiler: This was to disguise the fact that body in the grave was not Paul Renauld. For that matter, he was already dead before being stabbed.]]
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Giraud ignores the evidence of a piece of lead piping found by the body ([[spoiler:intended to disfigure the originally-planned fake corpse after death to hide its true identity]]), and also fails to properly explain why, if Jack Renauld killed his father for his inheritance, he would have bothered trying to bury the body afterwards as it would surely be to Jack's advantage for the body to be found immediately.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Giraud ignores the evidence of a piece of lead piping found by the body ([[spoiler:intended to disfigure the originally-planned fake corpse after death to hide its true identity]]), and identity]]). He also fails to properly explain why, if Jack Renauld killed his father for his inheritance, he would have bothered trying to bury the body afterwards as afterwards; since it would surely be to Jack's advantage for the body to be found immediately.immediately, there was no reason for him to try and hide it in the first place.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Hastings' marriage at the end of the story is reminiscent of Watson's in ''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Sign of the Four]]''.]]
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* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:Hastings' marriage at the end of the story is reminiscent of Watson's in ''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Sign of the Four]]''.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Renauld was killed for his money, but due to his criminal past, Poirot sees his murder as karma finally catching up to him.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: KarmicDeath: Renauld was killed for his money, but due to his criminal past, Poirot sees his murder as karma finally catching up to him.
