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Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
4.0

The best thing about an Agatha Christie novel: I never can quite solve them. I love the challenge of trying to figure out who did the bad things (usually murder, but sometimes there’s also theft or kidnapping). I try to puzzle out what happened, but I always seem to miss some little clue that should be obvious. With this one, I did figure out the location of a hidden item, but I totally missed some of the other things that are obvious in hindsight. I sure wish I could just start with hindsight.

The best thing about an Agatha Christie novel: the wonderful snarl of events and motives that become clear when you get them all untangled. There always seems to be a little more than I can keep straight when reading, and this book is no exception. No spoilers, but there are so many things that all tie to one location here… it’s a mess that makes so much sense when you get everything separated out.

I’ll keep reading Agatha Christie’s novels as I do: one or two a year. She has so many, it feels like I can read new ones forever at this pace. Hooray!