Reviews

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie

issie_emma's review

5.0

Throughout reading I was set on this book being given 4 stars, however those last few pages had me hooked. Even when I ‘accidentally’ went to the end to find out who the murder was (which is something I can normally hold off from doing’ I still had so many surprises laying in store. The small passage that I did read a little early didn’t in fact tell me anything I needed to know, and so the shock of the murder (or murders

celina31's review against another edition

mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

kevi_wan's review

challenging mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

pbraue13's review

3.0

A typical, but entertaining Poirot story with the murder of a 14 year old, no less, and the return of one of my favorite Poirot characters Ariadne Oliver!

frannieman's review

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

killingworth's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

freyajhugroo's review against another edition

3.75

I was totally bamboozled on this one BUT I did pick up on some of the key clues that helped poirot figure it out which I'm proud of. 

I read an interesting criticism about the believability of this one but that didn't take away my enjoyability during the book so not taking any points off.

I also love that Christie has a character who is explicitly parodying herself in this. It's very funny.

beatanorina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

jayraams's review against another edition

5.0

Beautiful story, Miss Oliver will always be my favourite secondary character.

sarabeth_h's review against another edition

4.0

New style for me. Loved the writing and thoroughly enjoyed learning new vocab and new uses for words. A great deal of character description and too quick for much deep development of those characters but for what I was anticipating, it fully satisfied.