Well, technically it is the 11th- I finished The Siege: 68 hours in The Taj (Yes, I read a freaking non-fiction novel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)- but I am still researching a bit about the attack + the review of it would be much longer and informative than this one and I don’t have the time to do that detailed of a review, right now, so here I am reviewing Mrs. McGinty’s Dead!
The prompt for this book is: Hey Stephen: Read a book with a name in the title
Blurb:
‘Mrs McGinty’s dead!’ ‘How did she die?’ ‘Down on one knee, just like I!’ The old children’s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas – unaware that his own life is now in great danger.
For a Christie novel, this book was rather bland. Don’t get me wrong, I still wasn’t able to guess the murderer correctly, but the build-up wasn’t all that great. The language differed from other Christie novels + the absence of Captain Hastings was thundering. I love Captain Hastings and hated it when Christie married him off. I want him to be Poirot’s companion forever and ever more!
The characters were portrayed moderately well, even though Poirot’s character ,like always, shone brighter than a star. Christie captured the ‘psyche’ of the characters very well, I must say so.
The plot could have been stronger, although it wasn’t all that bad.
I recommend this book to crime and mystery lovers and people who have just begun to read Christie or haven’t ever read her books.
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5
Have you read this books? Do you enjoy reading Christie novels? Who do you like more Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot? Let me know in the comments!!
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