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A review by halcyon_rising
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly by Agatha Christie
4.0
Written by Agatha Christie in 1954 to help raise money for her local church at Churston Ferrers, The Greenhouse Folly novella was ultimately never published in its original form. Instead, it became the basis for one of her favourite novels, Dead Man’s Folly, and a Miss Marple story was written for the church.
I have to admit, I did not know this was the shorter version of another one of her books, but since we have this book at our library, read it was. I do, however, regret having read this novella length story, as I would have preferred to read the longer one.
I’m going to confess something. At this point, I have not had enough training yet in solving these kind of mystery books, so the solution to this one? I mean, things are set up in a way, it’s there, but the reaching you have to do to get there, it wasn’t really an aha! moment when it all came together, more of an ‘okay’, that’s where you’re going with this. I mean, Hercule Poirot always seems to have this clue about what’s going on, while nothing on the page even points toward it. You can maybe solve it in part, but he’ll always pull out things he suspected without letting us know, just to have some unique spins at the end. So this one, while I do like it, was not the most satisfying solution of a mystery book.
I would recommend Dead Man’s Folly over this one, hoping that enough storyline was added to make that solution work better.
I have to admit, I did not know this was the shorter version of another one of her books, but since we have this book at our library, read it was. I do, however, regret having read this novella length story, as I would have preferred to read the longer one.
I’m going to confess something. At this point, I have not had enough training yet in solving these kind of mystery books, so the solution to this one? I mean, things are set up in a way, it’s there, but the reaching you have to do to get there, it wasn’t really an aha! moment when it all came together, more of an ‘okay’, that’s where you’re going with this. I mean, Hercule Poirot always seems to have this clue about what’s going on, while nothing on the page even points toward it. You can maybe solve it in part, but he’ll always pull out things he suspected without letting us know, just to have some unique spins at the end. So this one, while I do like it, was not the most satisfying solution of a mystery book.
I would recommend Dead Man’s Folly over this one, hoping that enough storyline was added to make that solution work better.