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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. a typical Christie mystery. nothing particularly special or worth making a note of, just an entertaining mystery which you can solve yourself and with some interesting twists ( ) A top-notch detective story by an author who is very good at detective stories! The titular Crooked House is an oddly-designed house holding the multi-generational family of Aristide Leonides, an immigrant to England from Greece who built his restaurant into a web of businesses that were never illegal, but definitely a bit crooked. His two grown sons and their families, as well as the sister of his deceased wife live in the house with him, along with his much younger second wife and a handsome tutor for his son Philip's younger children. Before the action of the novel, Aristide has died after the insulin his wife injected into him was replaced with eserine (from his eye drops). Our narrator, Charles, enters the scene as the fiancée of Sophia, Philip's oldest child, who he met overseas during the war. Sophia refuses to marry him until the question of who killed her grandfather is settled, since any hint of impropriety could hurt his prospects. Lucky for Charles, his dad is a big wig at Scotland Yard, and he gets sent to the Leonides home with our old friend Chief Inspector Taverner to see what he can learn about the family. Everyone suspects Brenda, the young wife, who had been having an affair with the handsome tutor, but, oddly, everyone in the family had their own reasons why they may want their beloved patriarch to be killed, and they all kind of suspect each other too. Christie leads us through a mountain of twists and turns and red herrings, wrapping things up with an unsuspected and very satisfyingly dark ending that proves that anyone in this crooked family really could be capable of murder. This was Christie's 49th book, published in 1949, and is frequently put in her top ten by critics and fans. I have to say that I am in agreement there. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialeEst contenu dansThe Nursery Rhyme Murders: Crooked House / Hickory Dickory Dock / A Pocket Full of Rye par Agatha Christie Crooked House | The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories | The Under Dog and Other Stories par Agatha Christie The Fourth Man / The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / SOS / Crooked House / Strange Jest par Agatha Christie Murder at the Manor: The Seven Dials Mystery / Crooked House / Ordeal by Innocence par Agatha Christie Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dans
Une trange famille habite cette maison biscornue. Sous la domination d'un a eul tyrannique - mais ador - d'origine levantine: deux fils, deux belles-filles, trois petits-enfants, une vieille tante... Il y aussi la toute jeune seconde pouse du grand-p re et le pr cepteur qui pourrait bien tre son amant...Qui donc a tu le grand-p re ?La seule personne qui semble avoir une id e pr cise l -dessus, c'est Jos phine, douze ans. Jos phine a des id es sur tout. Y compris sur l'art dramatique, les motivations des criminels et l'art d'empoisonner les gens. C'est un petit monstre sympathique.Il faut tre tr s attentif aux petits monstres. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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