Stars: 2
Review by: Mandy Apgar
Arriving at
the estate neighboring the country home he has just acquired, Hercule
Poirot is greeted by the vision of Dr. John Christow dying by the
poolside. His wife Gerda holds a gun in her hand, that
is until one of the myriad Angkatell relations (also John's mistress)
grabs it and drops it in the water. Although Poirot's thoughts take him
in a separate direction at first he eventually comes to realize that the
simplest explanation is often the correct
one. The book isn't as neatly put together as the segment in the David
Suchet Poirot series, has a character who serves completely no purpose,
and contains some dated - and in two cases borderline offensive -
stereotypes of the period. But it does not feature
the scary as all heck actress who plays the character of Lucy, so that's
a plus and a half right there. All the same, the faults of this one do
not make it one of her betters.
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