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Reading Wednesday (a day late)
Apr. 18th, 2024 02:37 pm(Late due to circumstances beyond my control.)
The Poirot kick marches on.
Cards On The Table might have been slightly easier to crack if I knew anything at all about bridge, but I don't. My first instinct about who did it was not quite right, but that person did have a body count. Also feel like Christie was poking fun at herself a bit with the character of Mrs. Oliver the detective novelist. (She also appears in Dead Man's Folly, which I have already read as I'm going out of order - I started in order but then went with 'whatever the library happens to have whilst waiting for book orders to arrive'.)
Death In the Clouds was quite fun, though it left me with the feeling that Christie might have regretted being locked into mysteries and fancied having a go at a romance - who is in love with who (or ought to be) is almost as much part of the book as murder and motives. At any rate, Poirot gets to play Cupid, which he seems to quite enjoy.
The Poirot kick marches on.
Cards On The Table might have been slightly easier to crack if I knew anything at all about bridge, but I don't. My first instinct about who did it was not quite right, but that person did have a body count. Also feel like Christie was poking fun at herself a bit with the character of Mrs. Oliver the detective novelist. (She also appears in Dead Man's Folly, which I have already read as I'm going out of order - I started in order but then went with 'whatever the library happens to have whilst waiting for book orders to arrive'.)
Death In the Clouds was quite fun, though it left me with the feeling that Christie might have regretted being locked into mysteries and fancied having a go at a romance - who is in love with who (or ought to be) is almost as much part of the book as murder and motives. At any rate, Poirot gets to play Cupid, which he seems to quite enjoy.
