A late 1950s Agatha Christie and one not populated by any of her recurring characters (unless I missed something). Sometimes these books unconnected to a series can feel wayward, and sometimes they’re tighter because there’s not a need to follow the patterns established by earlier books. Here, we meet an exceedingly rich and dysfunctional family, who we learn are in some later aftermath of the murder of their matriarch, and the subsequent conviction of that murder by one of the sons. He also died in […]