Elephants Can Remember
- 237
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Elephants Can Remember” is a sorrowful late Poirot in which the case rests on what people recall and say. Hercule Poirot works beside Ariadne Oliver, here for the last time, and their odd friendship is among the book’s pleasures. Some readers find the solution easy to guess and close to earlier Christie puzzles; others find the crime sadder and more down-to-earth than her usual.
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About the book
Elephants Can Remember is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last novel to feature the latter and was succeeded by Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, which had been written in the early 1940s but was published last. Elephants Can Remember concentrates on memory and oral testimony.
Reading order · canon of Hercule Poirot
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 140 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 49% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 13 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 127 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Elephants Can Remember?
It has 237 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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