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A review by octavia_cade
The Blue Geranium: A Short Story by Agatha Christie
mysterious
fast-paced
3.0
I've come to the conclusion, reading these short stories, that there are two kinds of Miss Marple mysteries: those that Miss Marple solves because of her knowledge of domestic activity, inspired by her experience of village life, and those that she solves because of Christie's knowledge of medicine and/or chemistry.
This is one of the latter. Oh, there's lip service to the village solution, but picking the culprit isn't exactly hard. (I did it, and I hardly ever get it right!) I suspected that the blue flowers were being caused by something sciencey, but I didn't guess what. So, half right, but honestly... while it initially seems a clever method, I can't help but think that had anyone bothered to make a genuinely close examination of the flowers in question, they would have quickly seen the trick.
This is one of the latter. Oh, there's lip service to the village solution, but picking the culprit isn't exactly hard. (I did it, and I hardly ever get it right!) I suspected that the blue flowers were being caused by something sciencey, but I didn't guess what. So, half right, but honestly... while it initially seems a clever method, I can't help but think that had anyone bothered to make a genuinely close examination of the flowers in question, they would have quickly seen the trick.