What I haven’t yet said, of course, is that by the time Poirot arrives on the scene the story has really been underway for quite some time already. Is this a carefully staged scene arranged by the guests as part of the afternoon’s amusements? Or is there something more sinister at play here? Don’t you just hate it when that happens? When famous detective Hercule Poirot stumbles on the murder scene moments after the shot rings out he’s immediately convinced that things are not all they appear. This isn’t a bad book at all.Īt first glance, The Hollow is a pretty typical country house murder mystery a group of friends gather at the home of a mutual acquaintance only for one of the party, the dazzling Doctor John Christow, to get bumped off near the swimming pool just before lunch. I very nearly gave up right then – who wants to read a murder mystery when you already know who committed the dirty deed? – but I decided to continue and, with hindsight, it was absolutely the right decision. …that I remembered having watched the TV adaptation a few years ago. This book was ringing alarm bells in my memory from the start.
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