79, WG54, E72, / NG25, D7, C1, Frz0, B1, NA0

Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly

Auch diesen Band habe ich sehr lange nicht mehr wiedergelesen - leider, denn nicht nur ist Aradne Oliver wieder dabei (bei der von ihr organisierten Murder Hunt hätte ich gerne teilgenommen), sondern der Plot ist wieder typisch Christie, raffiniert und überraschend und in einem faszinierendem Setting. Vielleicht hätte ich die Verfilmung abwarten sollen, aber was solls.

'I should like to see every feeble-minded person put out - right out! Don't let them breed. If,for one generation, only the intelligent were allowed to breed, think what the result would be.'
'A very large increase of patients in the psychiatric wards, perhaps,' said Poirot dryly.
.
'I'd have made the most awful fool of myself. I mean, what can you say about how you write books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, wen when you've thought of it you got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all. It would have taken me just three minutes to explain that, and then the Talk would have been ended and everyone would have been very fed up. I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.'
.
(Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly, 1956)