readingoverbreathing 's review for:

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

4.0

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"There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands."

Agatha Christie's genius never fails to amaze me, especially the scale of it. How she crafts such original, unpredictable murder mysteries again and again still blows my mind.

The only issue I really had with this was the Vicar as narrator; I found his character a little too self-righteous and uninteresting. His privyness to the drama seemed a little too convenient, and I found his hypocrisy rather annoying. (For example, how he judges other villagers for convening with those too young for them when in fact his wife is way too young for him.) Were it not for the Vicar, this probably would have been a five-star read for me.