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Summary: Fab Solution
Review: This book is definately one of my favourite Agatha Christies. I especially like the solution, although I feel the ending was a little incomplete: what happens to Charles + Sophia, detctives, Brenda and Laurence etc.?
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Summary: A Great Book.
Review: This book is great. Great Plot, great characters, great setting and a fabulous ending. A great place to start reading Agatha Christie. Also read Sleeping Murder.
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Summary: An excenllent book to read.
Review: This is an excellent book about a clueless crime. I think it is special because, the detectives aren not the same. Although it is a little bit large story and it hasn not the clues that I wished. But I think it is one of her best stories.
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Summary: A well-constructed mystery.
Review: This is one of Christie's most interesting novels. Don't be surprised if you can't put it down!! You will be quite surprised at the ending and kicking yourself for not guessing whodunit! My hint to you--listen to the description Christie gives about the mind of a murderer, and then try to pick which character matches.
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Summary: Clever, chilling, cunning - and brilliant.
Review: This is one of the Christie books I remember reading as a child. When I reread it recently, I was amazed at how superb it is - it is not a Poirot or Miss Marple mystery, not at all, but it is a very different type of mystery. The shocking solution is in fact a brutal attack upon our own culture, our obsession with murderers and murder, and the inexorable impartiality of evil - it is a very frightening book, largely because it does not follow ALL the strictures one expects of a murder mystery. A novel as well as a whodunnit as well as a psychological study. And a grand success.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: This is probably my favorite agatha christie, then ending is just so...RIGHT!!! I mean goodness knows I didn't guess it, but when you learn it at the end you go oh!!! and you look back at the book and it fits!!! In addition to this, the characters in this book are just amazing, the quick-witted josephine, the severely adoring clementis, bumbling roger, cold-seeming phillip, magda, actress supreme,smart-able minded and kind sophia and of course, the character of all christie characters, old aritside leonides, the impressive patriarch of the twisted and crooked leonides family.Just a great read, I recommend it so much!!!!
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Summary: the piracy mystery
Review: this mystery pirate ellery queen's work"the tragedy of y"
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Summary: Disturbing but one of Christie's best
Review: This work is darker than most of Christie's work, the ending is disturbing but it is one of her best.In war-time Egypt two young people, Charles Hayward and Sophia Leonides, met and fell in love. They are separated by their duties but keep in touch and plan to met after the war. When they are finally able to be together again in England Sophia and her family are under suspicion for the murder of her grandfather. Charles attempts to solve the crime and becomes immersed in his future in-laws lives. Who has commited the crime and why? Was it the old man's young bride and her lover? Or was it one of his disappointing sons? Perhaps his dead wife's sister who despised him or one of his daughters-in-law, or someone else.... This 1951 story is another of Christie's dysfunctional family studies but most other aspects of this one are departures from her usual style. First the patriarch of the family dominates by affection and kindness not fear and bullying. Also this is not one of her series, the detective and narrator, Charles Hayward, appears in this book only. The writers of Christie's day laid down certain rules of dective fiction, no unknown poisons or death rays, the butler did not do it, all clues must be fairly laid out for the reader etc. Christie adhered to these rules (although she sometimes interpreted them in unusual ways) and did absolutely in CROOKED HOUSE. The clues are all there for the reader to follow and yet I believe that, for most readers, the solution will come as a surprise.
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Summary: Disturbing but one of Christie's best
Review: This work is darker than most of Christie's work, the ending is disturbing but it is one of her best. In war-time Egypt two young people, Charles Hayward and Sophia Leonides, met and fell in love. They are separated by their duties but keep in touch and plan to met after the war. When they are finally able to be together again in England Sophia and her family are under suspicion for the murder of her grandfather. Charles attempts to solve the crime and becomes immersed in his future in-laws lives. Who has commited the crime and why? Was it the old man's young bride and her lover? Or was it one of his disappointing sons? Perhaps his dead wife's sister who despised him or one of his daughters-in-law, or someone else.... This 1951 story is another of Christie's dysfunctional family studies but most other aspects of this one are departures from her usual style. First the patriarch of the family dominates by affection and kindness not fear and bullying. Also this is not one of her series, the detective and narrator, Charles Hayward, appears in this book only. The writers of Christie's day laid down certain rules of dective fiction, no unknown poisons or death rays, the butler did not do it, all clues must be fairly laid out for the reader etc. Christie adhered to these rules (although she sometimes interpreted them in unusual ways) and did absolutely in CROOKED HOUSE. The clues are all there for the reader to follow and yet I believe that, for most readers, the solution will come as a surprise.
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Summary: what can can say!
Review: When I first started reading the book, it appeared to me as a love story! Unfortunately I am not a big fan of those kinds of books. But I really liked the way Miss. Christie’s portrayal the love between Sophia and Charles. After reading couple of chapter the main enigma begins surrounding Mr. Leonides’, the tycoon who emigrated from Greece, death. There are so many suspected murderers in the house and the level of suspects overwhelms the police. And so the story goes on. But the final revelation is truly amazing. If you think you can solve this mystery even before reading the last page, you are so wrong my friend! Miss. Christie is truly a genius and keeps you guessing until the end. My suggestion to you is that; read the book even if you’ve never read a Christie book before. Trust me you will become a mystery freak after you read this book. (...)
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