Elephants Can Remember (published in 1972) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver.

The novel is Oliver's last appearance in Christie's canon, and the last novel she wrote featuring Poirot, although not the last published.

Plot

Novelist Ariadne Oliver is asked to look into a murder that happened twelve years earlier, which took the lives of Lord and Lady Ravenscroft, as well as Lady Ravenscroft's twin sister.At the time the deaths were considered to be a double suicide. Now, along with Hercule Poirot, Mrs. Oliver begins searching the past, questioning people with fallible memories, and attempting to use any clues possible to uncover the truth before the inevitable return of the murderer. Mrs. Oliver uncovers conflicting information as well as many wrong facts. She gets frustrated because she cannot determine what information is fact, and what is fiction. But Hercule Poirot uses his "little grey cells" to determine at the end how the deaths came about.

Agatha Christie novels | 1972 novels | Hercule Poirot

Une mémoire d'éléphant | Elephants Can Remember