Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie is the first murder mystery by her where I guessed the murderer. I am so impressed by me. While the book is not one of her best in terms of dialogue and some references to elephants are a bit too repetitive, I loved that I figured out the murderer. From what I’ve read in the reviews on goodreads, it was not something many people figured out.

This is a cold case. A husband and wife were shot dead, but it was unknown if it was a suicide pact or a crime of passion. It wasn’t clear if the husband murdered the wife before killing himself or if it was the other way around, and the wife killed her husband before killing herself. This murder in retrospect is part of a series, when the crimes are solved years after they happened. In this case it was over a decade.

Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

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My rating: 5/5 Stars
Would I recommend it: yes
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
Year it was published: 2008 [first published in 1972]
Format: Paperback
Genre(s): Murder Mystery
Pages: 299

About the author: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, as the youngest of three. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During her first marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines. In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie’s death in 1976.
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