This was not what I was expecting. I went into reading it blind, all I knew was that it was by Agatha Christie and would probably involve a murder or two, but I wasn’t sure who would be playing detective – Poirot or Marple. As it turned out it was neither, although Poirot did get a mention.
I wasn’t
disappointed though. The idea was introduced by one of the characters early on
as the hour of a murder being zero hour, and for a murder novel to be really
good it should start long before that, with all the players being drawn
together by different events that ultimately lead to murder. It was that same
character, Mr Treves, who I thought would be murdered, and indeed he was
murdered, and this made me very sad because he was so likeable.
What made this
so good was the way everything was tied together. I almost felt at the
beginning that it was too long of a build up to the action, but as it happened
it worked well. I was annoyed that I didn’t work out who the murderer was but
maybe that made it more fun.
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