YMMV / The Murder on the Links

• Growing the Beard: This being the second Hercule Poirot novel, it sets up Christie's detective methods of looking into the psychology of characters, their motivations and personalities, as more effective and superior to locating evidence to judge from.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The novel treats Paul Renaud's murder as a karmic retribution due to his status as a fugitive convicted of murder many years ago. This seemingly ignores the fact that Paul—then known as Georges Conneau—committed the murder for the sake of his lover, Mme Beroldy, who then betrayed him by marrying her other lover instead of him and got away scott-free despite being a willing collaborator of the crime. Not to mention, the motive of his murder has nothing to do with his previous crime. He was instead killed by his former lover's daughter, who wanted to marry his son and cash in on his wealth, and decided to get rid of Paul because he was (understandably) against the relationship.

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