It's weird for me to dislike Christie books, but this one did nothing for me. It was a struggle to finish. I think the main issue was that I just found the why behind who murdered an eccentric and misogynistic man (Captain Trevelyan) to be boring due to one of the main character we follow through mo...
Between this and The Secret of Chimneys, I’m starting to get the impression that Christie was on a crusade to single-handedly take down the “policemen in detective novels are stupid” trope. Once again, we have a murder mystery where the police are competent and on top of things and aren’t completely...
I didn't quite finish this one before falling asleep last night, so I grabbed it and finished it this morning. This is one of Christie's true standalones - one of those books containing none of her recurring characters. No Poirot or Marple, but also no Colonel Race, no Inspector Japp or Ariadne Ol...
Not cricket, Dame Agatha! The story was enjoyable enough, but it was unsolvable by a reader because Agatha Christie withheld information until the denouement. She usually plays more fairly, and her stories are usually more cleverly spun!
"Major Burnaby drew on his gum boots, buttoned his overcoat collar round his neck, took from a shelf near the door a hurricane lantern, and cautiously opened the front door of his little bungalow and peered out." I love this opening paragraph. It sets the scene for one of my favourite cozy mysteri...
bookshelves: mystery-thriller, published-1931, winter-20102011 Read from September 15 to December 08, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** (f)Unabridged and read by Nathaniel Parker. 6 hours 10 mins duration. 6 Cassettes. BLURB - Set in a remote village on Dartmoor, a group of people are holding a seance in...
What can I say? It's an early Agatha Christie novel, with spunky young people solving crimes instead of eccentric older people. The mystery and the guilty party were noticeably easier to guess than in her later novels, at least for meWarning: Contains racial slurs.
The audiobook is like a radio dramatization with different actors and sound effects included. It's different, but I'm enjoying it so far.I was halfway through the audiobook before I realized that I had read this a long time ago. The killer was a surprise to me at this time and I think will be a su...
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