There are people, though (“elephants”) who never accepted the police version of what really happened. The police ruled the deaths a simple murder-suicide and nothing more. People who knew them didn’t know of any reason why they would kill themselves. Margaret “Molly” Ravenscroft and her husband, General Alistair Ravenscroft, seemed happy. If anybody can find out what really happened, it is he. Not being a detective, Ariadne enlists the aid of her friend Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who has solved so many different cases in so many other works of fiction by Agatha Christie. She believes Ariadne Oliver knows the answer, or at least can find out. Burton-Cox can’t allow her adopted son to marry Celia Ravenscroft until this question is answered. Burton-Cox wants to know if Celia’s mother killed Celia’s father and then killed herself, or if Celia’s father murder Celia’s mother and then killed himself. In considering the murder-suicide tragedy that occurred fifteen years earlier, Mrs.

Ariadne Oliver’s goddaughter, a girl named Celia Ravenscroft, is considering marrying Mr. As a successful novelist, she attends a “writers’ luncheon,” where she is accosted by an “odious” woman named Mrs. The “elephants” of the title are the people who remember the tragedy in all its detail because, as you know, elephants remember everything.Īriadne Oliver is the character in Elephants Can Remember who sets the story in motion. The story involves a fifteen-year-old murder-suicide, or what appeared to be a murder-suicide. One of Agatha Christie’s last published works was her 1972 novel, Elephants Can Remember. She also wrote the world’s longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which ran in London from 1952 to 2020.

She wrote sixty-six novels and fourteen short story collections in her long career and is the most published fiction author of all time, with two billion copies of her books in print. English mystery writer Agatha Christie lived from 1890 to 1976.

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