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| By Henrycooksey - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11806025 |
An Hercule Poirot continuation novel. Poirot and faithful sidekick and narrator Inspector Edward Catchpool . A classic 'cozy' murder mystery involving a country house, the use of a great deal of psychology, well-hidden clues and a satisfying twist near the end.
But I was rather put off at the start when Poirot was satisfied that his taxi pulled up at the entrance of his apartment block such that "one could draw a straight line from the middle of the vehicle to the exact point where the doors met." (Ch 1; first paragraph). My problem is that, mathematically speaking, one can draw a straight line between any two points. I presume that Hannah means that the straight line would be perpendicular to the doors (and to the side of the cab)? I suspect that Poirot, being at least as pedantic as I am, would have corrected her himself.
Selected quotes:
- "English discretion, Poirot had observed, had an outward appearance that suggested doubt." (Ch 1)
- "What little hair he had hung in isolated strands of white, as if remnants of a wig he had once worn had adhered to his scalp." (Ch 16)
November 2025; 384 pages
First published by HarperCollins in 2018
My paperback edition issued in 2019
The Monogram Murders (2014)
Closed Casket (2016)
The Mystery of Three Quarters (2018)
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill (2020)
Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (2023)
The Last Death of the Year (2025)
