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A review by tikitechie
Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
4.0
Great stories, but more story than detective novel
I enjoyed all these stories, but I always felt that the reader was left “ out of the loop” in many of them. Half the fun of crime stories is trying to figure out “whodunnit” before the author tells you. In nearly all these stories, critical pieces of evidence aren’t revealed to the reader until after the solution is explained! For example, the set up explains a letter was found with a date, but then only in the explanation are we told that the date was visibly altered!
I enjoyed all these stories, but I always felt that the reader was left “ out of the loop” in many of them. Half the fun of crime stories is trying to figure out “whodunnit” before the author tells you. In nearly all these stories, critical pieces of evidence aren’t revealed to the reader until after the solution is explained! For example, the set up explains a letter was found with a date, but then only in the explanation are we told that the date was visibly altered!