A month ago I made a post about Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party and mentioned how I have done a poor job selecting which of her books to read and that my next one would need to be one of her well-known books. Well, for some reason, I still didn't do that. Not sure what comes over me sometimes with my book selections. Fortunately, I really liked this one. A fun part about this one is that it did not involve either Poirot or Miss Marple. The story is set in Egypt around 2,000 B.C. The father's unlikable, scheming concubine gets murdered. Agatha does a great job setting this story up and then making everyone appear to have a motive which makes for a great murder mystery. It also had the unique element, at least in the Agatha books I've read thus far, where the murderer keeps on murdering. This happened in my favorite, The ABC Murders, but the others have had just one murder that is trying to be solved. There's an added element of excitement when murders continue to happen. There was this one moment where the main character Renisenb gets isolated with the character that I suspected was the murderer and it was rather intense, but it turned out that he was not the killer so all was well. The scene where the killer is finally revealed at the end is also really well done.
One quote:
"[O]nce the heart is opened to evil - evil blossoms like poppies amongst the corn."
Agatha Christie rankings:
- The ABC Murders
- Death Comes as the End
- 4:50 from Paddington
- Elephants Can Remember
- At Bertram's Hotel
- Hallowe'en Party
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