Sfida a Poirot

A Hercule Poirot mystery. A young woman stenographer is requested to come to an elderly blind woman’s house to take dictation. She is told if the woman is not home when she arrives, to enter the unlocked door and wait in the dining room. When she does so, she encounters a dead man and she runs screa Leggi tutto

This Hercule Poirot murder mystery is rather unusual, since he isn't in it very much. Monsieur Poirot is old, five feet four inches (1.625 meters), but with a certain presence that belies his diminutive stature. And spends the few pages he appears in at his London apartment, rich yet bored. Reading

The Clocks, by Agatha Christie. It was a very short read, and I caught myself binge reading, flipping through the pages while enjoying myself. I couldn't ask for more. The crime setting reminded me of an Ellery Queen mystery whose title escapes my memory for now. The start was full of unanswered ques Leggi tutto

A stopped clock is right twice a day. And when Sheila Webb trips on a dead body in a blind client's house, she notices several stopped clocks sitting around the room. She runs from the room in hysterics. As you do. Meanwhile, Colin Lamb stumbles upon an understandably hysterical hot chick and murder Leggi tutto

Choose Your Own Adventure! You are a member of the British secret service, and you are having a really bad day. Murder is never the best of reasons to engage in romance, but for you, the two become intertwined before you know it. In a way, it is not hard to understand why: temporary secretaries are t Leggi tutto

Barely any Poirot in this one, but on the plus side I could actually keep track of the characters for once, AND I figured out one of the clues. I was a thousand miles off from guessing any part of the murder plot itself though, so I won't pat myself on the back for it. P.S. AC wrote such weird child Leggi tutto