Part of the Mavenhill Classics series, this annotated edition of Murder on the Links presents one of Agatha Christie’s most atmospheric early mysteries, featuring Hercule Poirot at a crucial stage in his development. Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to the French coast in response to a desperate summons from a wealthy man who fears for his life. When they arrive, they find him already dead, his body discovered on a golf course overlooking the sea. The circumstances are puzzling, the timeline uncertain and the suspects numerous. As the investigation unfolds, Poirot finds himself at odds with a rival detective whose bold, physical methods stand in sharp contrast to Poirot’s emphasis on psychology, order and reasoning. The case becomes not only a search for truth, but a test of competing philosophies of detection.