Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86379 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

Customer Reviews

A lovley book
I like this Chrstie as it just seems like a lovely little story with flawless telling. Expertly clued, it will keep you guessing until the end. There are no loose ends and everything ties up well. I'd recommend this to any detective story lover.

A unique Christie
This is a great Christie book and it stands out because she takes a different approach to it and one of the main aspects of it is proving Elinor Carlisle is innocent, aswell as finding out who the real murderer is. This is a really great book despite it having one or two flaws which I will discuss later on in the review.

When Elinor Carlisles aunt dies, it is no surprise to anybody because she was already ill in hospital, but when the death is looked into in more detail it was discovered to be a suspicious murder. Then Mary Gerrard is mudered too and everybody suspects Elinor because she had a strong motive jealousy. Elinor is arrested and sent on trial, but Hercule Poirot is soon put on to the case of proving her innocence and suddenly a few overlooked clues become noticed and there is less of a case against her.

This is a good book, made even better by the fact that there is a section entirely devoted to a courtroom scene ( which I really enjoyed reading about ), but there is one problem, the only reason I didn't suspect the murderer is because it was too obvious and it wasn't like Christie tried to make it too obvious but I was just very unamazed by the actual conclusion.

This is a great book and I highly reccomend it, especially if you are tired of th eusual whodunnit and want something different.

Cypress
This audiobook of Hercule Poirot is very different from most of his other cases.

It takes a very long time for Poirot to make his apperance and start using his little grey cells. If you are not huge fan of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Poirot this is not for you.

Any average fan will not enjoy that much but if you watched or and read some of the stories or listen to the audiobooks this may delight you un-less you like Poirot to make an early apperance.