Book #177 of 2021:
Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #18)
Four solid but generally unremarkable short mystery stories, also published in the US under the title Dead Man’s Mirror. There are murders disguised as suicides and vice versa, stolen military documents (in one of author Agatha Christie’s rare moments of letting real-world political developments inform her writing), and a weird beach holiday where Poirot predicts that someone might end up killed but makes little effort to stop it. This deep into his series, I need clever twists on the familiar formulas to really wow me, and this is largely paint-by-numbers detective work instead. It’s hardly the worst of its lot, but it’s probably not a book I’d particularly recommend, either.
[Content warning for homophobia, sexism, and ethnic slurs.]
★★★☆☆
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