Status Updates From Postern of Fate

2/2 and then SOMETIMES, when it's the fourth, fifth, or twelfth time she's done it in as many chapters, you sit there like "okay, agatha, were you struggling to hit a word count here?"

So I'm about, what, 55 books into the ACEU (agatha christie extended universe,) and can safely point out a favorite trick of hers is long, rambling dialogues from tertiary characters. narratively, this adds character or local flavor to a story - and, in her earlier works at least, getting a "back in my day" ramble from, say, a devon-accented character was as diverse as she got - and sometimes hold a buried clue. 1/2