How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. If you have not read it yet, you should try it.Īs for South Africa, there were some interesting descriptions of the landscape as the heroin discovers it when she gets off the boat.

This is not to say that this is a too complicated mystery, but rather to say that I’m really dumb as far as mysteries are concerned – I probably don’t read or watch enough, so that I have a hard time guessing ahead of time and also to say that this is an excellently plotted book. As I still was not sure I had got it completely, I cheated and checked the plot on wikipedia (the article is very good, but of course you should read the book first). I could not identify the killer until very late in the book, it goes almost without saying, but I had also a hard time figuring really who was who, and I had to re-read part of the book again once I was done. At the beginning, it sounds really easy, but then the plot thickens, and is suddenly very complex, and you realize there are a lot of things and people involved in a crime that looked originally predictable. This is an original mystery, in the sense that it is very witty and funny, a bit à la Wodehouse actually. I had wanted to read more by Agatha Christie, and I discovered that this book was partly taking place in that country. The Around The Word Reading Challenge chose South Africa for the month of January. I read this book for the following Challenges:įirst, let me specify that I read this book for 2 Reading Challenges, as you can see above.

The man in the brown suit