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Finished my almost yearly reread of this Poirot mystery.
Let me just say that this is not one of Christie's best mysteries. If I were judging it based solely on it's merit as a Poirot novel, I would probably give it three and a half stars. It's not a bad book, but it's rather pedestrian, and is significantly inferior to Five Little Pigs, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Peril at End House, Sad Cypress, Dead Man's Folly, Appointment With Death and a number of her other He ...more
Let me just say that this is not one of Christie's best mysteries. If I were judging it based solely on it's merit as a Poirot novel, I would probably give it three and a half stars. It's not a bad book, but it's rather pedestrian, and is significantly inferior to Five Little Pigs, Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Peril at End House, Sad Cypress, Dead Man's Folly, Appointment With Death and a number of her other He ...more

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