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A review by kai3cll
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
5.0
It feels great when you know exactly who the murderer is but it feels even better when you get stumped!
[ Note: first section ahead is an avid Agatha reader's ramblings feel free to skip and start from the second section for the book review ]
(Note: The first section seems to be facing some technical issues TT)
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So for those who's been keeping up with me (thank you little reader <3) I have been cruising through dear Agatha's work for months. During this, I have learned to pick up little hints, notice conversational cues, and try to make a big picture out of the puzzle pieces I have - and successfully unsolved some of her books.
Therefore, I was feeling like I have gotten accustomed to the writing of Christie. But once again, Dame Agatha excelled as I kept running in the wrong direction and I am glad to be stumped as I will have to lower myself from the success high and begin from square one in the next book.
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I picked ABC Murders as my first novel of Agatha and I postponed reading it because I didn't connect with the first few pages. This is great because I am much more capable to enjoy the book now.
ABC murders follow our little Belgium showcasing all of his forensic profiling skills to catch a serial killer. It is nothing less than an episode of K-drama Through The Darkness (one of my all-time favs).
Readers may have successfully unsolved this riddled book with the new knowledge of profiling but I failed - miserably and joyfully. I had all the information that I needed and yet I wasn't able to put my little grey cells to work as Poirot would have suggested.
However, what wins my heart is that every profiling scene and method is accurate in the book. It has been 100 years and yet Agatha wrote exactly what criminal profilers say about serial killers. I am astonished by her capabilities and would gladly believe some profiler from the 21st century time-traveled and told Agatha all about criminal minds.
[ Note: first section ahead is an avid Agatha reader's ramblings feel free to skip and start from the second section for the book review ]
(Note: The first section seems to be facing some technical issues TT)
_____________________________________
So for those who's been keeping up with me (thank you little reader <3) I have been cruising through dear Agatha's work for months. During this, I have learned to pick up little hints, notice conversational cues, and try to make a big picture out of the puzzle pieces I have - and successfully unsolved some of her books.
Therefore, I was feeling like I have gotten accustomed to the writing of Christie. But once again, Dame Agatha excelled as I kept running in the wrong direction and I am glad to be stumped as I will have to lower myself from the success high and begin from square one in the next book.
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I picked ABC Murders as my first novel of Agatha and I postponed reading it because I didn't connect with the first few pages. This is great because I am much more capable to enjoy the book now.
ABC murders follow our little Belgium showcasing all of his forensic profiling skills to catch a serial killer. It is nothing less than an episode of K-drama Through The Darkness (one of my all-time favs).
Readers may have successfully unsolved this riddled book with the new knowledge of profiling but I failed - miserably and joyfully. I had all the information that I needed and yet I wasn't able to put my little grey cells to work as Poirot would have suggested.
However, what wins my heart is that every profiling scene and method is accurate in the book. It has been 100 years and yet Agatha wrote exactly what criminal profilers say about serial killers. I am astonished by her capabilities and would gladly believe some profiler from the 21st century time-traveled and told Agatha all about criminal minds.