Upon inspecting his body, Eloise collapses with grief at seeing her dead husband. His wife, Eloise Renauld, claims masked men broke into the villa at 2 am, tied her up, and took her husband away with them. Renauld had been stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly dug grave adjacent to a local golf course. Upon arriving at his home, the Villa Genevieve, local police greet them with news that he has been found dead that morning. parcelling off Hastings to wedded bliss in the Argentine.'Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help.

The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development ' greatly desired on Agatha's part. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes.

The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris S ret.

It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US, in the same year in the UK in 1923.

Poirot murder at the links