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"Three Blind Mice" 4 Stars. You can tell this was originally a radio drama from the structure and the characters. This may be the first AC I've read that doesn't have a recurring detective. She's packed it with misdirects and red herrings, but whodunnit is not hard to guess.
— Dec 04, 2025 04:16AM
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"The Plymouth Express" 4 stars. Still no magnificent moustaches or egg-shaped head, but this is the first Poirot where I guessed the whodunnit before the reveal. Also, lots of almighty little gray cells!
— Dec 07, 2025 04:05AM
SheriC
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"The Clergyman's Daughter" 3 stars. Only the 2nd Tommy & Tuppence I've read, and this one was much more interesting. The mystery and solution wasn't all that much, but T&T characters were charming.
— Dec 06, 2025 01:40PM
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"The Coming of Mr. Quin" 4 stars. Again, using a version of the parlor storytelling device, but in this case instead of just telling the story, it is a group of people actually involved in the mystery, figuring it out as they re-tell it to themselves.
— Dec 06, 2025 01:36PM
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"A Christmas Tragedy" 3 Stars. The mystery was interesting, but I dislike the story framing of a group of people sitting around and telling a spooky (mystery in this case) story to each other. I thought that device went out of fashion after the Victorian period.
— Dec 06, 2025 05:02AM
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"The Chocolate Box" 3 Stars. Seems a little hastily put together. Perhaps too short to really develop the story or characters. Poirot gets his little moment of unconscious arrogance, but I missed his extravagant moustaches and egg shaped head.
— Dec 04, 2025 04:19AM
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Good Lord, that foreword! Agatha Christie reminiscing on the gluttony of the good old days. The thought of drinking straight cream, and worse, raw cream makes me shudder.
— Dec 03, 2025 05:17AM
