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| The Hollow |
What could be more exciting than inviting a bunch of "discordant personalities" for a Sunday lunch, which by the way also includes the "crime man" as one of the guests? I can hear you saying it. Yes, murder. But Agatha Christie, in an interesting twist, doesn't let that happen until almost one-thirds into the book, which is also when Poirot is introduced. For a hard-core mystery fiction buff, this might seem a little off-putting, distracting and rambling even, but it also gives us, the readers, ample time to familiarise ourselves with the characters and what they stand for, thus making it that much more fascinating to watch the blame shift from one person to the other. Poirot, for his part, is ever the eagle-eyed detective, and although he does solve the mystery at the end, his presence is more or less relegated to the background, with Christie, like I mentioned above, focussing on the Angkatells who may or may not be living with a scheming murderer in their midst. A neat psychological mystery on the whole!
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