lesserjoke 's review for:

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

2.0

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This is not Agatha Christie at her best. Too much of the plot here relies on weirdly biased assumptions on the part of her detective Hercule Poirot: a certain open grave must have been dug by a man because no woman would have the strength, a young gentleman's first love must have been an actress because that's the sort of person young gentlemen always fall for, and so on. This wouldn't be a problem if these deductions were proved erroneous, but such is not the case. It makes for a rather poor showing of Poirot's genius, since any modern reader is forced to conclude it merely happenstance that he solves the mystery at all.