Subtitled: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery
By: Agatha Christie
Libby audiobook 7 hours
Read by: Hugh Fraser
Published: 1973 (this version 2012)
Genre: Murder mystery
This was Christie's last novel written before her death (though other stories were later published posthumously). It is NOT one of her better books. I confess that I had never even heard of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford before reading this book. (So clearly, there are several Christie novels I've not encountered.)
Basic elements of mystery, clues, suspects, etc. are present. But the story is so slow and so boring that I thought it was a knock-off written by someone else. Honestly, the dog Hannibal and the butler were the two best characters.
Mary Jordan did not die of natural causes. Most of the people in the "case" are gone. Someone has coffee "problems." Tuppence looked through old children's books. Interviews. Old gardener murdered. Gossipy ladies. Blah blah blah. I can't recommend it. And I usually LOVE Agatha Christie stories!
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