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4.0

I actually figured one out! I'm so proud of myself, haha. It was fun seeing how all the pieces fit together once I had an idea of what the solution was going to be. This has all the marks of a classic Christie mystery — the red herrings and secret identities and imminent danger, as well as the less favorable aspects like denigrating adopted children, using a slur for Italian people, and other questionable elements. And you can tell the books when Christie was getting up there in age (she was around 72 when this one came out) because there are a lot of characters going on at length in disapproval of various modern trends and fashions. Anyway, this was typical for a Christie mystery, but I enjoyed it slightly more than usual because of it being a rare case that I actually put the pieces together early on.