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This is not Agatha Christie's best book - how could it be? After all, this is the first book she published - but it features her trademark style: logical plots, an insightful but sometimes clueless narrator, lots of great misdirection and very witty characters. I laughed out loud a lot while listening to this book.
Having David Suchet as the narrator was simply wonderful. He has such a beautiful voice and such amazing diction but we never get to hear the real thing because (obviously) he's always ...more
Having David Suchet as the narrator was simply wonderful. He has such a beautiful voice and such amazing diction but we never get to hear the real thing because (obviously) he's always ...more
Mar 05, 2022
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I actually liked this one a bit more than some of the later Poirot mysteries I read. This is because Poirot is explaining his methods and thinking to Hastings. In later books it sometimes felt like his theories came out of nowhere, so I appreciated getting more information in this one...even when it was misleading. The mystery kept me guessing with lots of twists and turns as to who the primary suspect was. I liked Hastings and his relationship with Poirot. I will definitely continue to read the
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Oct 23, 2015
Kim DeCina
marked it as to-read
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