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A review by morgangiesbrecht
The Unexpected Guest by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie
4.0
One of Christie’s stand-alone novels, not featuring one of her famous detectives. What a ride!
A complete stranger helps a woman cover up a murder. He apparently doesn’t know who did it, but she is clearly covering for someone. Their steps to create a “perfect” murder coverup are intriguing and almost comical.
The characters are lovely, and I especially liked Sargent Cadwaladr…his poetic bouts in the middle of his job and the interviewing suspects procedure are just hilarious.
There were a few things I didn’t understand at the end, but…*shrugs*
The revealing…ah! Christie does it again. I had an inkling this might be the case. Always happy when my hunches are right.
Content: a married woman has an affair and it isn’t condemned; swearing
A complete stranger helps a woman cover up a murder. He apparently doesn’t know who did it, but she is clearly covering for someone. Their steps to create a “perfect” murder coverup are intriguing and almost comical.
The characters are lovely, and I especially liked Sargent Cadwaladr…his poetic bouts in the middle of his job and the interviewing suspects procedure are just hilarious.
There were a few things I didn’t understand at the end, but…*shrugs*
The revealing…ah! Christie does it again. I had an inkling this might be the case. Always happy when my hunches are right.
Content: a married woman has an affair and it isn’t condemned; swearing