![]() ![]() All the clues (including a pair of silk stockings and a superb clue in the form of bridge scores) are psychological / character-based-the suspects’ reactions, how they play bridge, how they notice a room, how they may think, and, by extension, how they would commit a murder - and it is natural that the mystery be solved by the amateur psychologist Hercule Poirot, aided by his fellow guests at Mr. The look at the background and psychology of a murderer is fascinating, recalling Christie’s 1939 classic And Then There Were None, and, from other authors, Anthony Berkeley‘s Panic Party and John Dickson Carr‘s Death in Five Boxes. ![]() ![]() The plot is deceptively simple: there are only four people, all of whom are murderers, and one of whom is the murderer - and yet the reader will find it almost impossible to spot the murderer.
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