Friday, January 31, 2020

After the Funeral (a.k.a. Funerals are Fatal) by Agatha Christie

(pb; 1953)

From the back cover

“The bodies seem to be piling up at Enderby Hall. First the very wealthy Richard Abernethie dies suddenly. Then his sister is murdered with a hatchet. Several days later, her companion is sent a slice of wedding cake steeped in arsenic. No wonder the family solicitor calls in master sleuth Hercule Poirot.”

Review

Funeral, the thirty-first Hercule Poirot novel, is a good, fun mystery, a great way to burn a couple of hours during the afternoon. The characters are an entertaining bunch with elitist-minded quirks, and the reveals interesting, as is often the case with Christie’s writing. Worth reading.

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