Kayote B. (kayote) reviewed on 2/6/2009 + 254 more book reviews

An odd Miss Marple--a Miss Marple in which she only appears 3/4th of the way through, and then appears to be a minor character!

I enjoyed the plot. I enjoyed the setup. It's a Christie, and it was unique and interesting to try and figure out what was going on.

There were a couple jarring things that bothered me and kept dragging me out of the story. The utter lack of suspicion on Megan was incredibly hard to believe--since it was the authorities and the narrator carefully detailing her movements and timing. While the narrator could be excused for being blind (his developing relationship to her being one of the other parts of the book I had a problem with--Gah!), the cops were supposedly quite competent.

Worth reading for the plot, as most Christie's are. Her narrator in this one wasn't too bad. It's just Megan, who I admit was vital at the end, who caused jarring in multiple ways.

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