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Agatha Christie's The A.B.C. Murders was the first of twenty-three murder mysteries that I read in a six-week stretch during July-August 2020. All are set in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and most of them in the British Isles. The reason for the first reading was to hopefully provide me with some ideas to help breakthrough a dry spell in my writing of a 1920s murder mystery. I enjoyed the read to the extent that, instead of returning to my writing, I have read in rapid order additional books by Christie as well as by Raymond Chandler, Margery Allingham, Dashiell Hammett, S.S. Van Dine, John Buchan, Dorothy L. Sayers and Karen Baugh Menuhin. The A.B.C. Murders is the thirteenth novel in Christie's Hercule Poirot series and ranks among the best of them. This places it among the best of the thousands upon thousands of murder mysteries written past and present.