Human: What does Poirot refer to when he asks Angela Warren if she had recently read "The Moon and Sixpence"? Assistant: 
Poirot refers to the novel "The Moon and Sixpence", by W. Somerset Maugham, when he asks Angela Warren if she had recently read it at the time of the murder. Poirot deduces that Angela must have read "The Moon and Sixpence" from a detail given in Philip Blake's account of the murder, in which he describes an enraged Angela quarrelling with Amyas and expressing the hope that