Bringing back more Agatha Christie wordplay with some fiendish and strangely prophetic anagrams of some of her Poirot titles!
(Okay, Mr. Suchet certainly wasn’t debarred from anything… but dash it all, it’s funny! Many of the anagrams below seem to actually refer to the plot of the book. See previous name-related anagrams here.)
Death on the Nile:
Oh, heated Linnet
Ah, he toed Linnet
Murder on the Orient Express:
Mr. Poirot’s entered her nexus
Monsieur expends the terror
Oh, Monsieur renders pretext
Render expert shot, monsieur
The Mysterious Affair at Styles:
A feisty Mary shouts flatteries
Dead Man’s Folly:
Malady enfolds
Fall adds money
The Murder on the Links:
Hint: mother needs lurk
Lord Edgware Dies:
Dreaded wig roles
Sir glowered; dead
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:
Hark, forgo my terror: deduce!
Doctor faked my huger error
Peril at End House:
Die upon a shelter
Sleuth idea-prone
I need a pro sleuth
Poirot’s Early Cases:
Ace a story’s spoiler
A solo spy careerist
A sly sir cooperates
Soirees; a scary plot
Ya, plot crises arose
Elephants Can Remember:
Mental pen embraces her
Appointment With Death:
Hated Ma within tent, Pop
Evil Under the Sun:
Unveiled hunters
Vulture heeds inn
Unnerved, I sleuth
Hickory Dickory Dock:
Coy chick or dorky kid?
Five Little Pigs:
Gives title flip [what these anagrams are literally doing…]
The Big Four:
Tough fibre
Tribe of Ugh [hehehehe]
Hallowe’en Party:
Lethal weaponry
Aha– well entropy [read the book, it’s true]
The A.B.C. Murders:
Butcher’s dream
Bad schemer rut
Debar Mr. Suchet
Bad here, Mr. Cust
Death in the Clouds:
Loaded hint, Suchet!
Oh, Suchet landed it
Suchet had not lied
Not a chided sleuth
A coded sleuth hint
Sleuth hidden coat
After the Funeral:
Uh, fatal referent
Affluent art here
Her artful tea fen
Cards on the Table:
Broached talents
Blatant docs here
[Aside: There are, additionally, a huge number of humorous and insane, if not always appropriate, anagrams for this title. That might have to be its own blog post someday, but I think my favorite is “Clone the bastard.”]
Three Act Tragedy:
Regret yacht date
Cheated– great try
Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case:
A tactician’s poor results
Very interesting anagrams of these titles. Amazing how many there of each.
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