Crooked House

Today’s post is on Crooked House by Agatha Christie. It is 236 pages and is published by  William Marrow. The cover is red with a house and a light coming from a window. The intended reader is someone who is interested in classic mystery stories. There is no foul language, no sex, and no violence in this novel. The story is told from first person close of the main character Charles. There Be Spoilers. 

From the dust jacket- In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level...

Review- A wonderful mystery from the queen of the genre. Charles wants to get married to long -time girlfriend but the sudden death of her grandfather puts everything to a halt. His girlfriend, Sophia, wants to know what happened to her grandfather before she will get married and asks Charles to come down and help. There are many twists in this mystery from how was the grandfather murdered to why the final murder happens. The characters are interesting and very dramatic from silent wives to fainting mothers and all that money, just about everything you could want from a mystery. This was one of Christie’s favorite works, personally, and I agree with her that it is a masterpiece. 

I give this book a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.