The Unrevealed Title

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 The title of the book shall be revealed in the Chase Verdict. The entire article leading up to that point is an exercise in which I will isolate different elements of the book and show how each one, single-handedly, eclipses a different Poirot novel. The novel is better than They Do It With Mirrors because it has more dramatic irony than it does, even though With Mirrors is built around acting. In addition, the novel has a much healthier difficulty to solve: it is not easy, but not as impossible as With Mirrors. The novel is better than Elephants Remember because it focuses on quality over quantity in the critical-recollective testimonies, avoiding the haziness that makes Elephants Remember an intellectual read; thus, this novel appeals to a wider audience. The clarity of each memory makes the narrative more engaging, and it lacks the obvious solution of Elephants Remember. All of these improvements let the novel better capitalize on the decreased tension, lower stakes, and lighter mood than Elephants Remember did. This novel also includes many amazing yet frivolous monologues, more than in Death in the Clouds, making for more comedy. As you may remember, Death On The Nile and Evil Under the Sun both rely on a subplot and a singular, innocuous, and pivotal clue. While those are effective storytelling devices, the subplot in this book is given more complex ornamentation and a plural number of clues instead of a singular one, while this novel also has a better innocuous and pivotal clue that is so good that it is often cited by other authors as the best clue Christie ever employed. Orient Express is plodding, relying on its spectacular solution and the retrospective experience associated with it. But this book has more dynamic characters; it is both easier to follow and more difficult (And thus more rewarding) to solve, with an ending of equal flourishing. The ABC murders has the murderer employing a clever method of obfuscation, as well as multiple side-plots (Emphasis on the plurality) that are very robust. But that does not stop the unnamed novel from having Poirot in even more peak form than in ABC, as well as including an element even more unique than the ABC villains' obfuscation, in the form of portraits of multiple characters' effects being a summoning of the gothic belief of Aestheticism’s literary implementation (As employed in Dorian Grey). The only Poirot novel that I have not yet addressed is Cards on the Table. Cards on the Table is built around a psychological element, using it to achieve its greatest strength: cohesion, with this powerful central theme creating a fluid state. Every chapter is a discrete point within each one type of reader may resolve their personal perspective. The novel that I discuss achieves an even greater cohesion, to the point that every discrete sentence is a space to harbor contemplation. The Chase Verdict is that the novel is Five Little Pigs.