It turns out the whole novel is the murderer’s suicide note, ending with Poirot’s solve and Poirot’s suggestion that he could either turn himself in, or to protect his sister’s reputation, he should kill himself.
Some people think it’s cheap, some think it’s genius, but it gets people talking.īut what gets me is the actions of the sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Christie made a lot of folks mad with the genre-shattering hook in that the narrator himself is the murderer. Her books are obviously brilliant, but as I delved deeper, I realized some are brilliant-or at least interesting-for reasons other than most people treasure them.
I didn’t read all of her books, but I read my favorites multiple times, trying to coax out every clue, red herring, and other uniquely-Christie nuggets she slipped in. When I started writing space murder mysteries, I went to the master for inspiration: Agatha Christie.
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