from tjsjohanna

Agatha Christie is one of the masters of the "cozy" mystery. What was most amusing about this novel was the way the narrator of the story vacillated between admiration for Poirot and condescension for what the narrator assumed were the failings of age - and of course all the wrong turns he took t...

from SlySionnach

So, I'm a forensic scientist (in DNA but still, the whole Solving Crime thing applies). This book had me thinking in the right direction, then changing my mind, then eventually figuring out what I thought was right and then was not. Confused? I was too. But in a fantastic way. This was my first A...

from MickyFine

Invalided home from the Great War, Arthur Hastings is pleased to bump into his old friend, John Cavendish, and be invited to spend time at Cavendish's family estate, Styles. In a happy coincidence, Hastings long acquaintance, Hercule Poirot, is also in the neighbourhood as he has refugeed from Be...

from nmhale

The first book Agatha Christie published was also her first Hercule Poirot mystery, my favorite of all her detectives. Captain Alfred Hastings narrates the story, and he also is a familiar figure in Christie mysteries, as a confidante and sidekick to Poirot. At the start of this novel, he is rece...

from humouress

Apparently, Agatha Christie - who had never written a book before - wrote this book in response to a complaint that there were no crime novels where all the facts were known to the reader, as well as the detective, before the denouement which weren't solvable in the first few chapters. This is th...