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A review by paddles1704
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
4.0
This book was gifted to me by a dear friend, and so I felt I had to read it as soon as possible. I am grateful to my friend for helping me on my life long goal to finish every Christie book, but this wasn’t one of my favourites.
She starts with an introduction that says people are starting to find mystery novels too predictable – “the murderer is the person you most medium suspect” (Dwight Schrute, 2009). So, she sets up four murderers in a room with only one murder and tells us that it is all a matter of psychology. This is so frustrating, because there are no clues, and each person could have equally committed the murder for various reasons; you just have to read through the book to find out which one she picked. In the 1985 murder mystery movie “Clue” (based on the popular board game of the same name), they end (SPOILER) by explaining how each character could have done it. That’s exactly how this book feels. I also know nothing about bridge, which would have come in handy.
She starts with an introduction that says people are starting to find mystery novels too predictable – “the murderer is the person you most medium suspect” (Dwight Schrute, 2009). So, she sets up four murderers in a room with only one murder and tells us that it is all a matter of psychology. This is so frustrating, because there are no clues, and each person could have equally committed the murder for various reasons; you just have to read through the book to find out which one she picked. In the 1985 murder mystery movie “Clue” (based on the popular board game of the same name), they end (SPOILER) by explaining how each character could have done it. That’s exactly how this book feels. I also know nothing about bridge, which would have come in handy.