Reading...

There will be plenty of reading posts in the future as I decided to read the complete collection of Agatha Christie's novels. Yes, my Mom had the books and once you start reading them it's so difficult to stop!

3. THREE ACT TRAGEDY (Poirot)
An actor hosts a cocktail party when a guest, a clergyman, suddenly dies. No poison and no motive. A while later the same guests meet at another party. Will something similar happen. Will there maybe be a third act? Could Poirot be one of the victims?

Favourite Guest Character: Egg.
Mystery: ****
Final Solution: ***
Entertainment: ** (***** for the last line!)
9/15


2. CARDS ON THE TABLE (Poirot)
Mr. Shaitana rounds up the usual suspects for a game of bridge: four suspected criminals and four sleuths. But before the game is over, a murder occurs. Four suspected, four (hi)stories and only one who did it. A proof that not playing bridge can be dangerous.

Favourite Guest Character: Mr Shaitana.
Mystery: **
Final Solution: ***
Entertainment: ***
8/15


1. MRS McGINTY'S DEAD (Poirot)
Mrs. McGinty's murderer is about to be hanged. But the police have second doubts and they ask Poirot for help. He soon finds himself in a Miss-Marplesque village, full of "old pussies" where everyone seems to know something but noone tells everything. Poirot finds four photographs from a newspaper and it turns out that one has been seen someplace else. But where? Too many persons, too much digging up the past and some hilarious scenes at the village guesthouse.

Favourite Guest Character: Mrs Summerhayes.
Mystery: ****
Final Solution: **
Entertainment: ****
10/15