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Peril at End House
by Agatha Christie
Still the Queen of Mystery/Crime Fiction.
Not one of my top Agatha Christie’s, but I still give it five stars in relation to other fiction in its genre. I think I was a bit disappointed because I guessed the murderer and motive, and that’s never happened to me with a Christie novel. Don’t get me wrong the mystery was still both elaborate and detailed, and lead me down the garden path several times before I worked it out. Plus I didn’t guess everything correctly, there was still plenty that I needed Poirot to provide answers to. Speaking of Poirot, I found him particularly annoying in this one, treating everyone, including Hastings, as inferior to him. Guess he has a right to be, given how many difficult and unusual crimes he’s solved, and to be fair to him everyone he met did treat him as a celebrity detective, but his attitude did becoming grating at times. Nonetheless, still, an exciting and convoluted read. Highly recommend.
Not one of my top Agatha Christie’s, but I still give it five stars in relation to other fiction in its genre. I think I was a bit disappointed because I guessed the murderer and motive, and that’s never happened to me with a Christie novel. Don’t get me wrong the mystery was still both elaborate and detailed, and lead me down the garden path several times before I worked it out. Plus I didn’t guess everything correctly, there was still plenty that I needed Poirot to provide answers to. Speaking of Poirot, I found him particularly annoying in this one, treating everyone, including Hastings, as inferior to him. Guess he has a right to be, given how many difficult and unusual crimes he’s solved, and to be fair to him everyone he met did treat him as a celebrity detective, but his attitude did becoming grating at times. Nonetheless, still, an exciting and convoluted read. Highly recommend.