One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
- 211
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“One, Two, Buckle My Shoe” is an entertaining Hercule Poirot mystery of just over two hundred pages. Some readers single out the playful back-and-forth between Poirot and Japp and a solution they did not expect from Christie; others enjoyed it without placing it among her best. It suits anyone working through the Poirot novels who wants a compact, good-humoured case.
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About the book
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. A paperback edition in the US by Dell books in 1953 changed the title again to An Overdose of Death. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while the United States edition retailed at $2.00.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 118 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 45% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 11 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 107 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is One, Two, Buckle My Shoe?
It has 211 pages — shorter than 97% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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