Rating: 
Summary: Hmm, maybe working it out isn't so much fun after all!
Review: To my utter amazement, I worked out who the murderer was halfway through the book - and spent the next half of the book metaphorically screaming at Luke and Bridget for their stupidity in not seeing it.
"Murder is Easy" is quite a good little mystery. There's a bit more romantic tension than is usual for Agatha Christie and many fun red herrings to get diverted by. It's a little loose in its execution, though - the supposed "macabre" atmosphere and Luke's cover story are very perfunctorily handled, for example.
Still, I enjoyed it.
Rating: 
Summary: A CLEVER TWIST
Review: You may ask after that enlightening review from another reader why I would give this book 4 stars. Well, I think it is the fact that I was a little bored towards the middle. It's typical for me, a die-hard Poirot fan, to feel weariness with Miss Marple. But other than that this was a good story. You at once feel sure that one of the characters is the murderer. Despite your former knowledge of Christie's famous red herrings, you jump unmercifully into accusations and assumptions. Of course, the most suspected person is never the murderer. And once you do get rock-hard proof of the real !guy!, you feel almost ashamed. After all, isn't that such a big fall-out when we are so quick to believe? I wouldn't say that this is at all Christie's best work. However, it does fall in that large basin of pretty goods and mediocres. Thank God, though, that there are more fantastics than absolutely terribles. That's just Christie's beautiful (and sinister) mind. Holli Burke, PhD.
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