Reviews

Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie

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.

theladydoor's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

goobytuesday's review

3.0

This wasn’t the usual hercule poirot mystery where it’s solely hercule doing the detective work with a sidekick helping him. The book was mainly characters describing each other in great detail with minor shade on skeletons in their respective closets. The ending and “exposed murder plot” was so fantastical and outlandish that literally no one reading this would figure it out until hercule spells it out for you. All in all, it was a decent story and had some great sarcastic lines from the cast.

myladydisdain's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

marysues's review against another edition

mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

prynne31's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

needagoodbook's review against another edition

4.0

This book follows the standard Christie formula. A bit of setup (with too many characters for me to keep in my head) followed by murder, investigation, seemingly no answers until Poirot figures it all out at the end whilst you're left wondering if all of the loose ends you thought of earlier are tied up.
A nice bit of escapism.

korennn's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

livreadslit's review

inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0