82, WG68, F40, E81 / NG14, M42, MF0, D1, Frz0, B7, NA2, C1

Agatha Christie, Mrs McGinty's dead

Das Buch war eine wahre Wohltat nach Murder on the Links. Anfangs konnte ich mich garnicht an die Handlung erinnern, aber beim Lesen kam vieles wieder, auch die Identität des Mörders, was aber dem Vergnügen keinen Abbruch tat. Besonders Poirots qualvoller Aufenthalt im chaotischen Haushalt der Familie Summerhayes und Ariadne Olivers Problem mit der Adaption ihrer Detektivromane waren richtig schön zu lesen.
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'The Cat it was who died' - that's where I made a blowpipe a foot long and it's really six feet. Ridiculous that a blowpipe should be that size, but someone wrote from a museum to tell me so. Sometimes I think there are people who only read books in the hope of finding mistakes in them.
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Hercule Poirot had heard many people say much the same thing. It was one of the most convenient assumptions, this knowledge of what the dead would wish. The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.
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(Agatha Christie, Mrs McGinty's Dead, 1952)