So it turns out I've apparently READ this book - contrary to what I told BT in another thread. The only reason I know this is b/c Book Cupidity liked my review of it on GR the other day.
I have absolutely no recollection of this book at all. (Although that marrow over the hedge tickles at least two little grey cells.) You'd think, given the twist, I'd remember *something* about it...???
Btw, I think by the reworked definitions, this would fit for "Terror in a Small Town" as well. If, as Lillelara successfully argued, Christie's "The Moving Finger" was approved on the grounds that [any] murder causes terror in a small town (and "Moving Finger" is actually set in a village, as is this book), then certainly the brutal, unexplainable murder of the local industrialist would have to be seen as having the same effect ... (especially as there are quite a number of people whose skeletons are threatening to emerge from their closets as a result).
I have absolutely no recollection of this book at all. (Although that marrow over the hedge tickles at least two little grey cells.) You'd think, given the twist, I'd remember *something* about it...???
This is some of Agatha's best work, IMO. It's an extremely daring solution.