Review: Crooked House

Crooked House by Agatha Christie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

One of the best of Christie madam. A very finely crafted plot and I can see why it is her favourite. I really like the whodunnits when there isn't any apparent motive, and anyone can be a murderer. A finely crafted plot. And like most of Christie's works an absolute page turner. It's a Fair Play Mystery, and we the reader have access to the same facts as anyone else in the story with of course the exception of the murderer, and nothing is withheld and no backstories that spring up towards the end to explain away some stuff.

Christie madam has always had this pet peeve of taking and twisting nursery rhymes. And she does that here too, with great finesse. Tension is built finely to the point where you can't sleep without finishing the book. This isn't part of the Hercule Poirot series or Miss Marple series etc. None of the traditional sleuths as such.

Enough said, just go and read it.

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