A review by jdcorley
Sad Cypress: Hercule Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A highly underrated Christie, in which a dreamlike and sometimes grotesque atmosphere serves to distract us from key elements of the mystery, so that when Poirot points them out we feel surprised and impressed even though everything he knows, we know. This is the essence of the classic mystery style. The reader is caught up in events, in a whirl , mystified quite literally. The detective alone draws us out.