I am currently reading The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith but as that is taking me a little while I figured I would back track to another novel I have read recently. Do you remember me doing the Prudence and the Crow piece a while back, well this was the novel included.
I’ll admit I have never even considered reading an Agatha Christie as she is not someone who particularly enthralls me but I figured as it was included I would have to give it a go. I did pick crime novels after all! As per many short novels this was a struggle, I don’t know why but I always struggle on novels that are only a couple of hundred pages long, this is 190 pages, I think it’s because the author has to squeeze minute details into as little words as possible. I prefer the longer more drawn out process where you have time to digest the storyline.
Hilariously Poirot doesn’t seem to be a huge part of this novel, he is a neighbour of the Angkatell’s who held one of their ‘wild’ summer parties and low and behold a guest ends up dead. John Christow is the great respected doctor but when he’s found face down in the pool surrounded by his own blood his wife is the main suspect. I personally fancied his lover as the murderer but each to their own.
I won’t spoil the ending for anyone who may want to read this but I have to say the murder mystery aspect wasn’t all that exciting.
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