Reviews and Comments

Nine pages in and already I can see how the facts and life lessons and studies within will transform my friendships and connections.

This is not her best, Dame Agatha must have been moved to write about postwar survivors, and worked in Hercule Poirot close to the end. The very end appalled this 21st-century reader, but I don't know how it is to serve for years in a world war.

oh boy what improvement in my life if I could remember daily 5% of this. Found a good translation into modern idiomatic English, indeed hardly anything changes.

reading 2002 Modern Library Edition, a new translation and introduction by Gregory Hays

Valuable. I will procure a permanent copy.

Good writing, but end puzzled me some. Satire delicious, cads, bounders, and "crazy women" abound.

( I thought I was doing things properly here but then again I thought those would lead to interaction. At least not yet.)

A librarian member of the regional library's reader advisory team enthusiastically recommended, practically raved, about this. I had the idea it was smart, and funny. It was tedious and predictable. I've read a lot of mysteries. This didn't move the needle on my fun-o-meter.

Broad humour, with several meanings of the word broad. Not one of Sharpe's best, but I did laugh aloud at some parts.

It's a marvel how Christie misdirects me nearly every time, if that is not a spoiler.

Inbetween long-term marriages, I'm going to give these advice tidbits a try, and report to my spinster gal pals the results.