Bridget A. reviewed on 6/11/2025 + 14 more book reviews

I have always liked Hercule Poirot books (and the movies made from them), but I had a hard time with this one. Maybe it was because Monsieur Poirot was now "retired". He also seemed more pedantic when talking to his friend/fellow lodger Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard.

The four people whose "crimes" started the ensuing misery were almost caricatures for whom I couldn't feel anything.

Agatha Christie loved her "red herrings", but this started with a significant one and kept looping through more until the end of the book. I almost didn't finish reading it because it seemed like there was a word count to achieve instead of a mystery to be solved.

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