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A review by obsidian_blue
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
5.0
This book did start off really slow. The first few pages were setting the scene so to speak and it was good to set up all of the characters.
However, this story was told from Hercule Poirot's friend Mr. Satterthwaite third person point of view. I realize that I really don't care for most of the Poirot stories unless they are told from Captain Hasting's points of view. Probably because Hastings is an excellent stand in for the reader and his mind goes to where most readers go to when trying to solve the murders. Satterthwaite is no Hastings.
We have three murders for Poirot and when you see how the things tied together you go to yourself, aha. Of course this makes sense. Honestly I am curious about how Agatha Christie wrote. Did she write the endings to her books and work her way back? I always think that things make such sense when you get to the end but I am always wrong about who the murderer is and she does such a great job of showing you plenty of other potential suspects.
I thought this book though I rated it five stars was a bit stiff in certain places. The writing didn't flow as naturally as it did for Lord Edgware Dies. I thought they had a more interesting cast of characters in that one too.
Of course in the final denouement we have Poirot revealing all to the assembled and I thought it was very clever how the murder set everything into motion. I will admit I didn't even try to figure out who the murderer was in this one and just sat back and enjoyed it.
However, this story was told from Hercule Poirot's friend Mr. Satterthwaite third person point of view. I realize that I really don't care for most of the Poirot stories unless they are told from Captain Hasting's points of view. Probably because Hastings is an excellent stand in for the reader and his mind goes to where most readers go to when trying to solve the murders. Satterthwaite is no Hastings.
We have three murders for Poirot and when you see how the things tied together you go to yourself, aha. Of course this makes sense. Honestly I am curious about how Agatha Christie wrote. Did she write the endings to her books and work her way back? I always think that things make such sense when you get to the end but I am always wrong about who the murderer is and she does such a great job of showing you plenty of other potential suspects.
I thought this book though I rated it five stars was a bit stiff in certain places. The writing didn't flow as naturally as it did for Lord Edgware Dies. I thought they had a more interesting cast of characters in that one too.
Of course in the final denouement we have Poirot revealing all to the assembled and I thought it was very clever how the murder set everything into motion. I will admit I didn't even try to figure out who the murderer was in this one and just sat back and enjoyed it.