The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
Read in December 2008
Not as engaging as And Then There Were None , but still an entertaining exercise in murder mystery theatre. I confess I did not discover the true murderer until Hercule Peroit telegraphed it to me in the final chapters. However, I did suspect that the obvious in-your-face suspect was just that – too obvious. For the longest time, I was convinced Inspector Crome was the mastermind behind the serial murders, but thankfully, I was wrong on that count.
GR Status Updates:
| 12/27/2008 | page 5 | 2.12% | “In the middle of chapter 1 “The Letter”” | |
| 12/28/2008 | page 26 | 11.02% | “In the middle of chapter 6 “The Scene of the Crime”” | |
| 12/28/2008 | page 67 | 28.39% | “Starting chapter 14” | |
| 12/28/2008 | page 97 | 41.1% | “Starting chapter 19” 3 comments | |
| 12/28/2008 | page 180 | 76.27% | “Finished” |
This professor is a Christie fan. Her novels leave me feeling uneasy though; does that happen to you?
Sometimes. When I finished the Murder of Roger Aykroyd I felt that way because of the unreliable narrator aspect.
We actually saw “Mousetrap” in London in the late 80s, where it’d run for about 6000 performances then. Liked it.
Is “Mousterap” an adaptation of the ABC Murders novel?