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What one recalls vividly, after several decades and more - not half a century yet, perhaps - of having read most of Christie, including this, is about how a good detective reads about the alphabetical order of three murders happening, manages to guess the next, and solves which was the real one, thereby solving who was behind it all - alphabetical twist being merely to throw dust in the eye, so to speak.
If one recalls correctly, D was real, E was prevented, and case solved.
Cards on the Table
Death on the Nile
One of the most famous from this writer, not the least due to the spectacular film - the story does lend itself to a spectacular film, rather. A beautiful young woman who is a rich heiress, with a brand new handsome bridegroom, setting out on her honeymoon - only, he had unceremoniously ditched his previous lover when he saw the beauty he married, and it so happened the two young women had been best friends, in fact that is how the couple had met. Now, the spurned lover is haunting them on the honeymoon, she is there everywhere they can and do go, no matter how carefully they camouflage their plans. Finally they are on a cruise on the Nile together, and she joins the cruise just as they are congratualting each other. Now there is no escape. And then begin the deaths...
October 21, 2008.
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Another one from the writer that lends to a spectacular film - with the spectacular setting and the high profile story of a murder on the famous Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris, discovered while the snow has made the train stop, since a pass in the mountains in untraversable. There are a whole lot of charcters that could have done it - and the story unfolds to say what motive who had, as Monsieur Poirot happens to be at hand travelling on the train, willing and ready to conduct the investigation.
December 27, 2020.
