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That is the line. And I still fail to read it as anything other than a backhand compliment. Drop that one sentence, and the paragraph is far stronger.
Ah, well, I read it as the opposite of a backhanded compliment, if there's a name for such a thing. It's a complement disguised as criticism.
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It also has to be said, that Christie created the 'reveal monologue' where the detective gets everyone in a room, and then dissects the murder and clues until the killer is unmasked. Without her, all crime writers that came later would write very different stories.
In Dostoyevski Crime and Punishment , there is a similar 'reveal' monologue with an extremely interesting twist (spoiler alert): the narrator knows the murderer, the reader knows the murderer, the detective knows the murderer, the reader knows that the detective knows the murderer - but the murderer, a naive student who is convinced he is the Übermensch and committed a perfect crime, is unaware that everyone knows he…
For anyone who has never read Agatha Christie, I highly recommend the following: - And Then There Were None - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Murder on the Orient Express - The A.B.C. Murders The books are usually "slow burns", meaning they slowly build up to the big reveal at the end of the book. Agatha Christie is the master of making great payoffs though, so despite the initial slog, by the last page you are usually…
For anyone who has never read Agatha Christie, I highly recommend the following: - And Then There Were None - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Murder on the Orient Express - The A.B.C. Murders The books are usually "slow burns", meaning they slowly build up to the big reveal at the end of the book. Agatha Christie is the master of making great payoffs though, so despite the initial slog, by the last page you are usually…
Standard Ebooks is on the front page at the moment, but unfortunately doesn't have these titles. Would you particularly recommend any of the five they do have: - Poirot Investigates - The Secret Adversary - The Man in the Brown Suit - The Murder on the Links - The Mysterious Affair at Styles https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie