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But I don't know if that's true. I've read a lot of books about Agatha Christie with inaccurate information in. April in All Poirot novels. I found it to be an acceptable and believable story from start to finish.

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April I enjoyed Cat Among the Pigeons as well. One of my favorites. I didn't like it the first time I read it. But oddly enough when I re-read it I warmed towards it. Ive always felt it should have been a Miss Marple though. There's an odd piece about Poirot telling the difference between women's knees and girls knees.

Has he been studying them?! It seems odd. I think it's more believable that Miss Marple would know more about girls than Poirot. April edited April I really enjoyed it as well. I don't know if I could go as far as to say it's one of my favourites, but it's close. Maybe because it was my first AC story, it will always have a special place in my heart. Yes, it has some oddities that could be very well thought as weaknesses, such as Poirot's lat appearence. I still think it is well made, like Miss Marple's in The Moving Finger, but maybe Julia could have brought him a little earlier.

Tuppence could be interacting with the girls, doing that type of comment about their knees and Tommy the classical research.

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Besides, CATP has the feeling of an AC thriller, with all the international intrigue setting and the exotic sceneries. All qualities of that could very well fit with the couple. Tuppence could be a friend of one of the Teachers asked to come to Meadowbanks, I agree with you youngmrquin, it has the feeling of an Agatha Christie Thriller. In agreement. He doesn't have daughter. I can hardly picture them discussing their knees with him anyway. No, Poirot, the fastidious bachelor, should not know these things! But I still like the idea of an such an important international intrigue being cleared up by a English spinster from an English village!

Miss Marple could befriend the girls easily and they would probably reveal secrets to her that they didn't realise were so important. But it's been written as a Poirot, so I will have to accept that. It's not the only example of Poirot's rather unexpected knowledge of ladies wear. It occurs in Murder On The Orient Express, where he knows what old fashioned hat boxes look like inside, plus that ladies modern hat boxes look different to old ones!

Yes, it's a strange comment, but not much more than those that Mr. Whether the latter was gay or not, I see that both of them have in common somes tastes and visual preferences, as much as knowledge, that are supposed to be female. An interesting aspect of AC stories is that this detective, one of them being her strongest one, weren't stereotypes of the cassical macho. I love the ambiguity of some of Agatha Christie's characters. Mr S is one of those who we can only speculate about.

In some ways Mr S could be see as a modern metrosexual.

On the other hand perhaps it was more than that. But that is a different, Mr Quin related topic. In The Moving Finger, Jerry the wounded solider laments a girl's lack of knowledge about clothes. But as for girls and ladies knees I still find it hard to accept he know that much. He'd have to look at them closely. I really don't buy that. Discuss their wives yes, but gentlemanly Captain Hastings taking about his wife Dulcie's knees?! Ditto all other Poirot companions. I can't imagine Hastings even knows what the inside of women's hat box looked like.


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Nor would he discuss it if he did. They were living in a very different age. Major Dispard in Cards, expresses his indignation that Mr Shaitana wears scent, as though that's really not the English male thing! As for women's bodies, I can't imagine Poirot discuss those with any detectives or the sweet but slightly prudish Hastings.

Anyway, it would be more than a discussion. Poirot could only tell women's knees from a girls if he'd seen them at first hand.


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Topol's novel gives honest treatment to the realities of today's world and the frequent requirement to meet force with force and brutality with brutality. His heroine, l:ora Baruch, was born in Egypt into a Jewish family which traced its Egyptian roots back to the age of the Pharaohs. Intent on becoming an actress, she was schooled to that end in London. Instead she became a dispassionate Israeli agent and one of the most expert operatives in Israel's elite anti-terrorist organization, M Leora's early dreams were shattered by the Arab-Israeli conflict of when her family, now impoverished, was forced to leave Egypt for Israel.

Seeking revenge for the treatment of her father and other family members, Leora becomes a top Israeli intelligence agent. Her dedication to the cause only increases after she is captured and spends two years as an Egyptian prisoner surviving tortures at the hands of her Egyptian jailers. She escapes, aided by Israeli intelligence, to be-come the only woman member of M, and agency which has a simple solution to deter terror--kill the terrorists before they can take over a plane, other facility or kill innocent people.

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It is not revenge alone which drives Leora, but the desperate need to defeat a conspiracy designed to ruin Israeli-Egyptian friendly relations for all times. Topol's Leora shows the traits of history's greatest Jewish women--the Loyalty of Ruth, the resourcefulness of Deborah and the beauty and cunning of Judith.

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For her price is far above rubies. Leora knew the value of freedom and paid the ultimate prices. She understood that the world can only survive if civilized people and nations hold the beats at bay. He told me that his daughter in Tel Aviv was accompanied by a guard with a machine gun when he walked to school. I remarked how much I admired his people and he said, "Why? We do what we have to do to survive.

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Leora is a happy Jewish girl living in Alexandria, Egypt, when we first meet her at the beginning of this outstanding novel. Somehow we never lose that 8-year old girl as Leora moves through the menacing growing up years. As a college student in London, Leora loses her innocence to Philip and her aloneness to acting. She dreams of being an actress, but the years pass and suddenly Leora is called home--not to the beloved Alexandria of her childhood, but to Israel where her family has been banished because of the growing tension between Egyptians Andrews.

In Israel Leora joins the army and her life changes. The bitterness and hatred she begins to feel toward those who expelled her family from Egypt, finds a target, and a purpose when she joins Shai, the Israel intelligence agency, and is sent to Egypt to gather information. The bits and pieces she sends back become information to aid Israel in its struggle to survive. Then the boredom she feels from the inactivity becomes imprisonment when her mission is discovered and she is arrested and tortured in an Egyptian prison.

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Few novels have kept me as involved as this tone. It's today's news packaged in a tender, dangerous, violent, loving manner that reinforces the talent displayed by Topol in "The Fourth of July War. Leora Baruch is an Israeli intelligence agent in a special unit charged with eliminating terrorists. She is a crack operative, motivated by her hatred for the Arabs who dispossessed her Egyptian Jewish family during the war and who imprisoned her for several years as a spy, and by her love for the Israeli agent who rescued her form Egypt. Topol, a Washington author, writes a book that is more character study than thriller.

Unfortunately Leora may be too one-dimensional for his purpose. On the other hand, there are some crackling good scenes, and the climax, though inevitable, is compelling. That first novel "The Fourth of July War," took as its starting point the threat of an energy crunch in brought on by the extortionist demands of the Middle Eastern suppliers of oil.