Another very ordinary 'Poirot'. The Belgian sleuth is travelling in the middle east with a group which includes a horrible American matriarch.
This horrible bit of goods gets the chop and because she's such a nasty piece of work she deserved it.
Its very hard to get involved in the story when there is absolutely no sympathy for the victim.
Anyway Poirot sets out to solve the murder and he does but with one of the real cheat endings of Christie's career . The reader should at least have an outside chance of solving the murder but this one gives you no hope. Not great. (1938)
A list of books I've read recently with some occasional gibberish thrown in.
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