{also published as The Alphabet Murders}
< contains spoilers >
Well, you did it again...
I thought, as I read this, that you had diverted from your typical patterns in two ways: you were writing about a serial killer (indeed I thought this was worthy of Criminal Minds!), and you had his point of view from the beginning of the novel.
Well I guess this still qualifies as a serial killer, although three of the four murders were only done to draw attention away from the one the killer really wanted to do. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it's a little like Three Act Tragedy...
But the killer... dang it, you did it again. Got me.
Surprise, surprise.
Last weekend Robert and I got to go see Chicago at the Buell Theater in Denver - definitely one of my favorite musicals. Poor Alexander Bonaparte Cust - how he reminded me of Amos in Chicago!
Early in the book, this amused me - Japp's comment about Poirot:
"Mixed up in all the celebrated case of the day. Train mysteries, air mysteries, high society deaths..."
Sure sounds like a nod to the previous few novels. And, is this a foretaste of what is to come in, I believe, Curtain?
"Shouldn't wonder if you ended detecting your own death!"
Only 50 or so more books until I find out.
Always with admiration,
Beth
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