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nedjemet 's review for:
Murder in Three Acts
by Agatha Christie
The ideas at work in this one are quite fun, but the overall execution leaves much to be desired. Christie was normally excellent at giving the reader all of the clues they'll need to solve the puzzle, but that's not the case here. In the final explanation, Poirot brings up multiple things he discovered off screen that the reader could not have reasonably guessed from context clues. Things vital to putting together the full picture of the crime. I'd actually managed to piece together elements of the solution, but couldn't make sense of them because of the missing clues. The motive was equally disappointing, so it's two stars from me. Not a terrible read, but no where near as satisfying as other Christie novels.