by Emilia Fox, Agatha Christie
This was my last Christie mystery - and what a wonderful way to end! Why Didn't They Ask Evans was published in 1933, and fits right in with the Bundle Brent sub-series (The Secret of Chimneys/The Seven Dials Mystery) and The Secret Adversary. I found this book completely charming. Lady Frances De...
What a fun look at a standalone Christie. "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" is definitely full of twists and turns. I also didn't realize the guilty party until the end of the book. The characters of Bobby Jones and Frankie Derwent (Lady Frances) are delightful and some parts of this book remind me of "T...
Not Christie’s best work. It’s mildly entertaining, but there came a point about halfway through when I started wishing Frankie and Bobby would just call in the police and go home. I’m not used to wishing my amateur sleuths would find different hobbies. :|
I like bobbie and frankie.
To put it mildly--not one of Christie's best--and I am a fan who has rated books of hers five stars. I really liked it at first. Bobby Jones is a amiable young man, a vicar's son, who finds a dying man at the foot of a cliff. The man's last cryptic words were, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Soon there...
This is the second time I have read this stand-alone Christie mystery. The two main characters, Bobby, a vicar's son and Frankie, the daughter of local peer, suspect that a death from the cliffs was deliberate and not an accident. They blithely look for clues without realizing they are arousing su...
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