Not a bad novel ! ~~"Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)"

Three Act Tragedy (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

Agatha Christie
Berkley Publishing Group
Sales Rank: 1525737

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 Not a bad novel !, 2008-03-01

This is a dark tale of suspense , twists & turns and drama containing characters of depth and substance in a well written easy to read novel . It shows the genius of Agatha Christie ! This will not send you to sleep ( unlike Five Little Pigs & Sad Cypress ). I know it does re-use the genesis of Lord Edgware Dies but it is great fun if you want a train or coach journey to pass that bit quicker . But as with Dead Man's Folly , Evil Under The Sun & Murder In Messomptania Agatha Christie could have added Hastings as Poirot with out Hastings is rather like Morse without Lewis or Holmes without Watson . Her failing as an author was that she created great characters like Supt Battle , Col Race , Miss Lemon , Chief Inspector Japp , Mrs Oliver and of course dear old Captain Hastings but did not use them often enough . When Sir Peter Ustinov filmed Murder In Three Acts ( a TV movie based on this book ) the decision to include Arthur Hastings was the right one because with the best will in the world Mr Satterwaite was alright but Hastings is the Watson of this enterprise . There was a brief rumour on IMDb web site that Zoe Wanamaker might play Mrs Oliver in a televised version of Three Act Tradegy which does sort of embrace the logic of what I have said . That is not hard fact - just an interesting bit of speculation about how this book may be filmed should David Suchet get around to it in the next few years .

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