From the Publisher
Of all Christie’s detectives, it’s Jane Marple who best understood what can drive ordinary people to the extraordinary act of taking a life.” — S. J. Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author
“The great mistress of the last-minute switch is at it again…. Even the experts have given up any attempts to out-guess Miss Christie.” — New Yorker
“Precisely what one expects: the most delicious bamboozling possible in a babble of bright talk and a comprehensive bristle of suspicion all adeptly managed to keep you much too alert elsewhere to see the neat succession of clues that catch a murderer we never so much as thought of.” — New York Herald Tribune
“A model detective story, there is never a dull moment.” — The Times (London)
“The suspense is agonizing.” — Daily Mail (London)
New Yorker
The great mistress of the last-minute switch is at it again…. Even the experts have given up any attempts to out-guess Miss Christie.
S. J. Rozan
Of all Christie’s detectives, it’s Jane Marple who best understood what can drive ordinary people to the extraordinary act of taking a life.
Daily Mail (London)
The suspense is agonizing.
The Times (London)
A model detective story, there is never a dull moment.
New York Herald Tribune
Precisely what one expects: the most delicious bamboozling possible in a babble of bright talk and a comprehensive bristle of suspicion all adeptly managed to keep you much too alert elsewhere to see the neat succession of clues that catch a murderer we never so much as thought of.
New Yorker
The great mistress of the last-minute switch is at it again…. Even the experts have given up any attempts to out-guess Miss Christie.
