Mrs. McGinty's Dead
Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional
4.4
Agatha Christie
In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim’s blood and hair. Yet something is amiss: Bentley just doesn’t seem like a murderer.Could the answer lie in an article clipped from a newspaper two days before the death? With a desperate killer still free, Hercule Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out. . . .
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Author
Agatha Christie
Pages
272
Publisher
Harper Collins
Published Date
2009-03-17
ISBN
0061749869 9780061749865
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"This book was definitely a page turner for me. Poirot seemed confused at who was the murderer throughout most the book, which was a bit confusing for me. <br/><br/>Poirot is returning from walking around town, just after enjoying a very well cooked dinner. His friend Superintendent Spence is waiting for him in the parlor with a case. When Spence tells Poirot the case, it seems like a closed case. James Bentley was sent to jail for killing his landlady, Mrs McGinty. But Spence doesn't think that Bentley did it. Poirot takes the case and goes into the small town where the murder took place. <br/><br/><br/>It seemed like Poirot wouldn't figure this mystery out. There were a lot of suspects and a tiny bit of evidence. Until the second murder happened. Then things began to pick up."
"3.5 stars, it could've been easily one of my favorite books of agatha christie the story begins very simple then takes a turn towards a very creative mystery but the ending was so out of nowhere. I love everything mrs christie wrote because everytime the answer is right there staring back at you but this book is nothing like that. No one could have guessed who done it because it wasn't mentioned anywhere before the final reveal"
"As always Poirot is such a creative series and after not reading Christie for a while this is a great dive back into her universe"
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Marta Hammers