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Title: The Hollow by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0-425-06784-X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Murder At A Cozy English Houseparty Is Excellent Christie
Comment: Agatha Christie again does what she does best: gathers a group of diverse characters at a country estate, provides motive and opportunity for each of them to commit a murder, and then allows a murder to occur.
The setting for "The Hollow" (also published as "Murder After Hours") is the home of Sir Henry Angkatell and his fascinating wife Lady Lucy Angkatell. A weekend houseparty launches the mystery to which Hercule Poirot, a neighbor who has a weekend cottage nearby, has been invited. Also present are: Henrietta Savage, talented young sculptress; Midge Hardcastle, poor relation who works in a dress shop; Edward Angkatell, shy bookworm in love with Henrietta; David Angkatell, a university student; Dr. John Christow, long-time friend of the Angkatells and lover of Henrietta, and Gerda Christow, John's wife.
When Poirot arrives for the weekend, he first enters the swimming pool area where a body lays. Nearby is a person holding a revolver. Sounds simple, but appearances are often deceiving.
Christie once again gives us another variation on the most likely person being guilty in the brilliant fashion that only she can. She never runs out of surprise endings, and this is one of her finest.
Rating: 4
Summary: Review
Comment: Mrs. Christie set out to write a novel-and she succeeded. The characters who populate the typical country-house 'The Hollow' are vivid and believable, motivated by love, jealousy, hatred or despair-but handled in a unique manner. The most important character is the victim, Dr. John Christow, whose death is the centre point of the romantic triangles amongst the eccentric Angkatell family, and who is linked with three women, all in love with him, but in very different ways: his wife, Gerda; his mistress, Henrietta Savernake; and his former fiancée, Veronica Cray. Naturally, the motive is jealousy, but the themes of love and jealousy are superbly handled.
The detective story elements are not, however, Christie's best. The murder is quite simple-the murderer is obvious, but the circumstances, involving several guns and a painting of Ygdrasil, are inexplicable-and the entire thing is a reworking of LORD EDGWARE DIES. Poirot is very much in the background, acting only as a deus ex machina at the end-it was a mistake, Christie later felt, to have him in the book.
The result: a beautiful yet somewhat flawed masterpiece.
Rating: 4
Summary: typical agatha christie's book
Comment: it seems that this mystery got a necessary flavour to become a good movie ever...full of melodramatic elements entangles with murder and the characters are all believable....a necessary ingredients to become a good movie..but the mystery is just so and so only....
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Title: Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0425093255 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0425175456 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Appointment With Death: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie, Jayne Pliner ISBN: 0425108589 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0425098532 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0425175472 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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