Name: Dumb Witness (Poirot)
ISBN: 9780007120796

Agatha Christie

Dumb Witness (Poirot)

Everyone blamed Emily Arundell{u2019}s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously, he didn{u2019}t receive the letter until June 28th by which time Emily was already dead.

a Hercule Poirot mystery

Dumb witness

Wynter

I didn't have very high hopes for this book, but it really surprised me. A nice little mystery! I'm still in awe how cleverly Dame Agatha managed to twist the plot in her books with such mastery. This time an elderly woman, whose relations are hungry for her money, has an accident that she fortunately survives with minor scrapes. Worried that her fall down the stairs was arranged by a family member she implores Poirot for help, but forgets to send out the letter to him. A few weeks later she is found dead of apparently natural causes. Was there an attempted murder? Or was the perpetrator successful in their goal? Quite an interesting case, and Hastings is present too!

Juliana Matias

This is a fairly fun Poirot entry - the only thing that kind of threw me off was Hastings giving the dog actual dialogue. =/

Liz B

Good mystery, love the dog being vindicated!

Dumb Witness

Rose Stanley

Hastings is a LOT less dopey in this, approved.

Giulia Pianta

Once again, I started this book and just way in it I realised I had already read it. Luckily I had absolutely no memory of this so it was like reading it for the first time.

I kind of figured out the way the murder happened, and I guessed the whole brooch thing but I was so confused as to the killer was, and it turned out to be a nice surprise.

Kate

Due mesi dopo

Laura Carminati

Second book that I read about Hercule Poirot. I don’t know, I’ve just this craving to read all about Agatha’s books that I have at home (not many though, I only have one more). At least I will finish the Mount TBR challenge…

Anyway. The book starts in April when the protagonist invites her relatives for Easter, but while they are at their aunt’s house, she falls down the stairs. Everyone thinks that it was because of her dog’s ball, but the woman thinks otherwise. So she writes Poirot a letter but this letter arrives late, two month late, when she is already dead (for natural causes). As soon as Poirot receives the letter he leaves for the woman’s house just outside of London.

Here, he finds out that the old woman left everything to her Lady-in-waiting and nothing to her relatives and this change of the will happened soon after the accident with the ball.

What will he discover? The woman was killed or was it really natural causes?

I read this book in a little over a day even if the language used is quite old (even the translation is old) not as flowing as I am used to. I still hate the French that isn’t translated, not even in a small note at the end of the page.

Sincerely I don’t know what to say more than in the other review, to say the truth I don’t even remember who the killer is now that I’m writing this review… It’s a light reading, a book to read in a raining afternoon sipping chocolate or tea. Don’t get me wrong, I like this kind or reading, but there’s nothing more to say in a review, especially because the time is so far back that some things are unthinkable for me.

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Erin 

I think that was the fastest audiobook I have ever listened to?? Still though, Agatha Christie books will always be a good fallback. I quite like it when each character has a different actor - it makes it so much easier to follow along and is way more entertaining that way. 3.5 stars because it was quite short, and there are so many more Agatha books out there I am sure will be better.