Agatha Christie's Crooked House
This was on a list of “best Christie books” that I saw one time, it was on sale for kindle today, and I’ve been jonesing for mysteries, so I decided to give Christie another try, hoping for a lack of racism (there is one ethnic slur towards a Greek man). Anyway, this doesn’t involve any of her famous detectives—the narrator is a young man who wants to marry a young woman, except her wealthy grandfather has just been murdered. Luckily his dad is the head of Scotland Yard, so he’s dispatched to hang out with his fiancée and see if he can get to the bottom of things. I DO love a mystery like this and this did have an interesting conclusion, though I didn’t really love the way things wrapped up (Christie is prone to having her characters moralize). Very entertaining though and just what I was in the mood for. A-.
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