309 reviews for:

Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie

3.77 AVERAGE

adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Living for the dog's POV in this one ngl

A banger!

Bob <3
funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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• #StoryGraph: fiction classics crime mystery mysterious fast-paced
256 pages | first published 1937

In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise.

Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.…

On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th…by which time Emily was already dead.…

I quite like the idea of being commissioned by the dead, and I enjoy the mystery of this, but there are some WOW YIKES racist bits in this.
mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Pas le meilleur de ses romans. Pas folichon. COMMENT ÇA C’EST L’AVANT-DERNIÈRE ENQUÊTE AVEC HASTINGS ?!

Cependant ok les conditions de la mort et les conditions de révélation du coupable ça changeait de d’habitude, je ne peux pas lui enlever ça.

4 stars. Bob is awesome. The mystery is good. Not too much mirth and a slight suspension of belief here and there but all the clues are there. Classic Poirot. Lawson and the other characters were awful. I look forward to reading this when I forget who did it.