![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s UK title is derived from a well-known children’s nursery rhyme of the same name, and the chapters each correspond to a line of that rhyme. Nevertheless, given the choice between setting free a blasé triple murderer and allowing an innocent man, set up by the guilty man, to be hanged, Poirot saves Carter and lets Blunt and Gerda be arrested. Blunt’s credentials as a champion of political and financial stability are made clear in the text. Mr Barnes discusses the main political forces freely with Poirot. Frank Carter is a fascist and Howard Raikes a leftist. This is the first of the Poirot novels to reflect the pervasive gloom of the Second World War, and is one of Christie’s most overtly political novels. More people are dead, and the investigation widens, as Poirot slowly finds his way to the true stories behind the murders. Soon after he visits his dentist, Poirot is investigating the death of his dentist. The novel features both the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and Chief Inspector Japp. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while the United States edition retailed at $2.00. A paperback edition in the US by Dell books in 1953 changed the title again to An Overdose of Death. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. ![]()
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