Shi Tono Yakusoku [死との約束]
by:
高橋 豊 (author)
Agatha Christie (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9784151300165 (4151300163)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: K.K.Hayakawa Shobo
Pages no: 389
Edition language: Japanese
Series: Hercule Poirot (#19)
There is not much point in repeating the storyline of this book as every Christie reader knows the story of a horrendous, cruel,terrorising (step)mother and her dysfunctional family. And as this is a Christie, murder must follow . Enter Hercule Poirot, who decides to give Colonel Carbury(a friend of...
Oh dear. If the pedants who teach creative writing classes by rote ever needed support for their insistence on "Show, don't tell" as their unerring advice, then they need only make people read the first 20% of "Appointment With Death". I've never been so bored by or so impatient with an Agatha Chr...
Enjoyed this cozy mystery immensely. Though the story started a bit slowly the initial discussion and character analysis of Boynton family by Dr Gerard and Sarah King the psychologists, was very interesting to read. And of course yet again I failed to guess who the actual murderer is. Hercule Poirot...
"You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?" Mrs. Boynton is despised by everyone who meets her. Even her family. All of her children live under her thumb and it is easy to see how her manipulative tyranny make Mrs. Boynton one of the most despicable characters [spoiler] and one of the mo...
Well this one was not as well done as Death on the Nile. I think it was because it was pretty obvious after one character's utterance who did the crime in this one.Unlike with some other Poirot novels, Hercule really doesn't step up to the plate until about half way through the book. The first half ...