I don’t want to figure them out! I want to be tugged along by false clues only to have my world turned inside out by a cleanly revealed misdirection that causes my mind to instantly reconsider the past 200 pages that I’ve read. I’ve got to shake my head at my luck with solving Christie’s mysteries so far. And, in both cases, I pretty much saw the solution the entire time, and yet somehow managed to remain enchanted. Although we’re dealing with entirely different stories taking place in completely different settings, both books swept me right in and maintained my interest throughout, despite the lack of any “impossible” hook that I typically seek out. My experience with Crooked House is incredibly similar to my experience with Death on the Nile. Crooked House straddles the categories neatly, and deservedly so. I’m starting out with a bang after all, dabbling in some of the better regarded titles in Christie’s library, and checking off some of the books identified in the Five Agatha Christie Books to Read Before They’re Spoiled For You list assembled by Brad over at Ah Sweet Mystery. If my choice for my very first Christie book ( Death on the Nile) was predictable, my follow up read is probably equally so.
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