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Summary: Classic Christie
Review: A true Christie mystery, an English country house murder, a definite set of suspects and more plot twists than you can shake a stick at. The story begins with a funeral of a rich old man, or rather with the reception after it, when one of the heirs announces "Well he was murdered wasn't he?" When she is killed the next day the family lawyer calls on Hercule Poirot and it all begins. I will refrain from giving too many details, since half of the fun is in figuring out the people for yourself. Unlike in some of her later books, Christie does not yield to the temptation to spout politics or philosophy, yet it still manages to be moderately deep. While not my very favorite of her books (I'm partial to Miss Marple) it was entertaining and I was unable to guess the murderer, despite my long acquaintance with her style.
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Summary: Very good unputdownable Agatha Christie classic.
Review: Agatha Christie is my favourite author. With this book she has again enthralled readers worldwide.
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Summary: Funerals can be fun!
Review: Agatha does it again! Without wishing to give anything away, she has the reader looking in the wrong direction from page one right up to the end. How many times have we Christie fans fooled ourselves into thinking we know "whodunnit," only to find out that, dammit, she's pulled the wool over our eyes again! This one is pure pleasure; the characters are more eccentric than usual and therefore quite funny at times, and the puzzle (and its solution) is as amazing as any she ever came up with.
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Summary: Said the Spider to the Fly
Review: Also published as FUNERALS ARE FATAL, this 1953 Christie novel finds the author very near the height of her form, spinning out one of the most deviously plotted works imaginable. The scenario concerns Roger Abernathe, an elderly man of tremendous wealth whose death comes not a moment too soon to benefit family interests. Brother Timothy and sister Cora are in reduced circumstances. Nieces Susan and Rosamund have made questionable marriages and are in dire need of money to keep their husbands in line. And what nephew George has been up to is positively criminal. All in all, it is a classic Christie set-up--and an instance in which she cleverly uses the readers' expectations against them in the most unexpected way imaginable. Christie is not usually noted for her clever characterizations, but she peoples her novel with a host of memorable characters ranging from the elegant Helen Abernathe to the peculiar Mr. Goby to the dithering Miss Gilchrist, and her turn with celebrated detective Hercule Poriot is among the finest she wrote. Compulsively readable and with a head-spinning solution, AFTER THE FUNERAL easily ranks with Christie's great murder mystery masterpieces, a meticulously crafted novel in which she invites you into her parlor--and distracts you with tea and crumpets to prevent you from noticing her truly wicked way with a web. Strongly recommended to fans of the classic mystery form! GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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Summary: Another spellbinding Christie
Review: Although this mystery is not among the more well-known Christies, it's certainly one of the best done. The characters are interesting, complex, and often quite humorous; the subtle clues are laid with care; and Christie really makes the novel's atmosphere come to life in her descriptions of Enderbury Hall and Cora's shabby cottage and sleepy town. Written in the 1950s, there is definetly a touch of nostalgia woven throughout the book -- hints of the changing post-war period, glimpses of years gone by. The novel's solution is spectacular, not only for the ingenious resolution of the puzzle but also because Christie really hits the nail on the head when she reveals the murderer's psychological justification for his/her acts. She has a deep understanding of the obsessions and quirks that, taken to extremes, motivate humans to commit terrible acts.
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Summary: Crooked House
Review: Christie's last classic performance, playing (as she did in the 1930s) on the genre's conventions. Here, a wealthy old man is cremated without any suspicion of foul play arising until his sister asks `He was murdered, wasn't he?', whereupon she is battered to death. The family lawyer calls in Poirot, who functions late, but very effectively. Clueing top-notch standard job, including two brilliant devices (the mirror and the wax flowers) dangled lovingly (yet tantalisingly out of reach) before the reader's very nose. Murderer's identity as brilliant as the plot used to camouflage the murder, and, as a character, ranks with those in Lord Edgware Dies and Five Little Pigs.
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Summary: Crooked House
Review: Christie's last classic performance, playing (as she did in the 1930s) on the genre's conventions. Here, a wealthy old man is cremated without any suspicion of foul play arising until his sister asks 'He was murdered, wasn't he?', whereupon she is battered to death. The family lawyer calls in Poirot, who functions late, but very effectively. Clueing top-notch standard job, including two brilliant devices (the mirror and the wax flowers) dangled lovingly (yet tantalisingly out of reach) before the reader's very nose. Murderer's identity as brilliant as the plot used to camouflage the murder, and, as a character, ranks with those in Lord Edgware Dies and Five Little Pigs.
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Summary: one time around of good mystery
Review: hercule poirot is up again to a very baffling mystery...this mystery is about one family that facing a crisis after one of the memeber dies...and in this family case,christie once again using her expertise (ie mystery surrounding the family) in manipulating her imagination according to the right situation...and i can assure you that you will thoroughly satisfy after you read this book...
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Summary: I really enjoyed it
Review: I found that, once again, Agatha Christie keeps us guessing wrongly till the last page. I really enjoyed reading about Hercule Poirot, he's just amazing.
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Summary: One of the best...
Review: I have read about 30-32, A.C novells (there is 55), and this is one of them that I enjojed the most. Why, you may ask...in this book, there is a brutal, murder,,,wich you all know, isn't all that common in A.C:s books. Actually the person who said "well he was murdered wasn't he?" (= after the funeral of a rich relative;Richard Abernethie) is found brutally murdered with an ax the following day. And she was known for such statements, (true, and/but embarrasing). Anyway Hercule Poirot is 2 investigate the case. The plot is very exciting, interesting, and the end unexpected and chocking. When will the next murder happen (if it ever does that is), - find out!
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