I felt as smug as if I’d solved the case myself! And I am sure it is Christie’s genius that gives me this feeling of smugness – the smugness I felt when I read Japp’s reaction to Poirot’s deductions. Every moment I wasn’t reading the book was almost a physical pain because of how I couldn’t yet find out who murdered Lord Edgware.Īt the end of the story, I felt a strange sense of satisfaction that I haven’t felt in quite some time now. I love how it managed to keep me on the tenterhooks and kept me glued to the story throughout. It has all the usual Christie markings – adrenalin rush, surprise, shock, awe, disbelief – only heightened in this story. It ranks right up there with Murder on the Orient Express and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
To be frank, Lord Edgware Dies is one of Agatha Christie’s finest works, in my opinion.
It is beautifully written – classic Agatha Christie – and kept me engaged for its entirety. I’ve learnt to smile at Poirot’s eccentricities and every time he says mon ami or eh bien, I break into a wide grin. Lord Edgware Dies put me on the edge, wanting to not put it down because then I’d become paranoid, wanting to know who exactly the murderer is. ‘Don’t you dare question Poirot, you fools! I want to yell at these two numbskulls, though I must say, Japp is mostly at the receiving end of my ire. So, when, despite the number of cases they’ve worked on together and despite knowing Poirot as a person, Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp keep putting him down, I get supremely annoyed, for some weird reason. ‘Great job’ being unfairly insufficient to describe what Christie did with Poirot.
Agatha Christie, one of my most favorite authors, has done such a great job in keeping the quirks of this detective constant across books that I marvel at her genius time and again. I am a huge fan of Hercule Poirot, as I have already mentioned. Stupid question, but it is my duty as reviewer to bring it forward. Who exactly did this? Will Hercule Poirot be able to solve this case, despite the numerous distractions people bring to it? What’s more, two more people are also murdered, following Lord Edgware’s death. She expresses interest in bumping off her husband because she wants to marry someone else. Lord Edgware Dies is pretty clear from the title.
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