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Summary: Funerals Are Fatal
Review: This is classic Christie---the country house, the discreet servants, and Hercule Poirot gathers them all in the library to expose the culprit. As usual, Dame Agatha has her way with us, sending us off in the wrong direction, maddeningly obscure clues, and a thoroughly suspicious bunch of characters.Roger Abernethie's heirs are gathered to hear the will when flighty sister Cora drops the bombshell, "He Was murdered, wasn't he?" The next day Cora is found axed to death in her little cottage. We have a raft of suspects and Ms. Christie is careful not to give any of them a satisfactory alibi. "After the Funeral" is vintage Christie. She was at the height of her powers (1953). The characterizations were surprisingly deft (usually not her strong suit.) Uncle Timothy, the malingerer, was overdone, but George, the clever ne'er do well had some great malicious lines. She has a marvelous sketch of a private detective, Mr. Goby who was "--small and spare and shrunken. He had always been refreshingly nondescript in appearance and he was now so nondescript as practically not to be there at all. Mr. Goby was not looking at Mr. Poirot because Mr. Goby never looked at anybody----he emphasized his last point by nodding significantly at the sofa." This slyly humorous well done mystery was a pleasure to read. Did I figure out ahead of time whodunit? Don't even ask.
-sweetmolly-Amazon Reviewer
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is the first Agatha Christie book I read, and I enjoyed it greatly
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Summary: Great Characters and Lots of Plot Twists - a la Christie!
Review: This Poirot book is the usual fare for Christie fans. There are lots of intricate plot twists and red herrings, and the characters are wonderful. I think I read Agatha christie for the characters more than anything, and this book does not disappoint. In this book the family patriarch dies suddenly. He has been ill, and no one questions the death until his youngest sister says "He was murdered wasn't he?" at the funeral. Then the next day this sister is found brutally murdered in her home. Enough for the family solicitor to call in retired Hercule Poirot. The ending of the book is quite unexpected, but that's usual for an Agatha Christie book.
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Summary: I've read better
Review: Well, it was a good book (just as I find most Agatha Christie novels), but I've read many of her books and it didn't even compare with, say, "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." That title, in my opinion, is a work of genius, and this one I didn't find one of the more exciting ones. But it's worth your time nonetheless, and the solution is clever.
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Summary: Another spellbinding Christie
Review: When Richard Abernethie dies, no one suspects anything since he had been ill for some time. Also, none of his relatives were particularly sorry since his will made them all extremely wealthy. However, after the funeral, his slightly batty sister blurts out that Richard's death didn't seem quite natural. The family is appalled, but later remember her words when yet another murder occurs. The concerned family solicitor calls in the renowned private detective Hercule Poirot. A piece of wedding cake, an oil painting copied from a post card, and a Victorian bouquet of wax flowers are among the clues that set Poirot on the trail of the killer. In 1963, a movie titled "Murder at the Gallop" was made based on this plot. Poirot was deleted from the movie and Miss Jane Marple was inserted to solve the case.
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Summary: Poirot Shines In Case of Death at Victorian Mansion
Review: When Richard Abernethie dies, no one suspects anything since he had been ill for some time. Also, none of his relatives were particularly sorry since his will made them all extremely wealthy. However, after the funeral, his slightly batty sister blurts out that Richard's death didn't seem quite natural. The family is appalled, but later remember her words when yet another murder occurs. The concerned family solicitor calls in the renowned private detective Hercule Poirot. A piece of wedding cake, an oil painting copied from a post card, and a Victorian bouquet of wax flowers are among the clues that set Poirot on the trail of the killer. In 1963, a movie titled "Murder at the Gallop" was made based on this plot. Poirot was deleted from the movie and Miss Jane Marple was inserted to solve the case.
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