ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER

“They left the house after tea to go for a walk, as they often did. They didn't come back for dinner and the servant, or the gardener, or whoever ... went out to look for them and found them both dead. The revolver was lying next to the bodies. ” In this suspense, Agatha Christie presents us with a story full of mysteries and secrets. We are introduced to Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, a very famous crime writer in London (would she be an alter ego for Agatha herself?) Who doesn't like to interact with her audience. One day, however, while attending a literary lunch, Mrs. Oliver is asked by Mrs. Bedley-Cox and the story of the death of a well-known couple in the city. Two interesting aspects of the plot: the couple's daughter, Célia, is goddaughter of Ariadne Oliver; the deaths occurred more than ten years ago.The story unfolds. Many witnesses are heard by Mrs. Oliver and Poirot, Célia and her fiance Desmond take note of the case and help as they can. And despite dealing with facts from the past, where memories help, but also fantasize and create facts that are not untrue, “old sins cast long shadows”, and everything always comes up, in one way or another "I don't know if you know a story that children grow up hearing. About how someone, an Indian tailor, stuck a needle in the trunk of an elephant. And when the elephant ended up passing by again, he had a lot of water in the trunk and squirted it all over the tailor, although I hadn't seen him for several years. I hadn't forgotten. He remembered. Elephants don't forget." "I mean, you write these wonderful stories, you know everything about crime. You know who commits crimes and why they commit them, and I am sure that the most diverse people should tell you the story behind the story." To solve the case, Poirot uses, in addition to his detective skills, the ability to piece together pieces that theoretically do not fit the mystery: the family dog that changed his personality and four wigs that Mrs. Ravenscroft often wore despite having a lot of hair.A book that lives up to Agatha Christie's career. It holds the reader to the end and unravels the mystery like dust thrown into the air. It was all there, it always was. However, if it is up to me to make a small criticism of the book, as a reader, it is that at least one third of the dialogues does not make the slightest difference to the plot. It may be the author's resource to point out paths that have no way out, but reading brought me the feeling that the book would remain what it is even if at least 70 pages were removed, as they add nothing.It is worth reading because Agatha Christie is Agatha Christie.🖤📚Note: ☆☆☆☆☆| Title: Elephants Can Remember | ISBN: 978-8520936528 | Year: 2014 | Specifics: 168 pages | Editor: Nova Fronteira (1 January 2014)| Genre: Fiction| Finishing: Hardcover | Measurements: 17.6 x 10.6 x 1.4 cm|Cutting: UnpaintedReview on GoodReads (Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie)Buy on Amazon (Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie) Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE, born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller; (Torquay, September 15, 1890 - Wallingford, January 12, 1976), popularly known as Agatha Christie, was a British writer who served as a novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet. He stood out in the detective novel subgenre, having popularly earned, during his lifetime, the nickname "Queen / Lady of Crime" ("Queen / Lady of Crime", in the original in English). During his career, he published more than eighty books, some under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott.According to the Guinness Book, Christie is the most successful novelist in the history of world popular literature in total number of books sold, since her works together have sold nearly four billion copies over the centuries. XX and XXI, whose total numbers are only behind the sold works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare and the Bible. According to the Index Translationum organization, the works of Agatha Christie have already been translated, in a recent survey, into more than 100 languages worldwide. His best-selling book, Ten Little Niggers (published in Brazil as E Não Sobrou None, or O Caso dos Dez Negrinhos, and in Portugal as Invitation to Death or The Ten Black Figures), from 1939, is also, with about 100 millions of copies sold across the globe, the best-selling detective work in history, as well as being on the list of best-selling books of all time, regardless of their genre.🖤📚Twitter (@agathachristiebrasil)Web Page Oficial Agatha Christie