Was I the only one disappointed by the ending?
So many of my friends told me that I’d never in a million years be able to guess the identity of the murderer, but I immediately suspected Dr. Sheppard after Roger asked him to make sure that the window was secured.
I’m sad because I really wanted to be surprised by this one.
by living_double333
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I loved it. But I love everything she’s ever written so I guess I’m biased.
I love Christie and have read her books over and over. But I never once was surprised by the big reveal.
I read it without any prior knowledge and suspected the doctor pretty early, then spent the rest of the book trying to talk myself out of it because there’s no way someone would write a book like that. (This was my first Christie.)
Christie does a great job of misleading the reader and playing it completely fairly by having the narrator be unreliable by omission rather than falsehood.
By the time you reach the ending you begin to see exactly what she has pulled off, and even with your suspicion you still see how you were misled by not reading between the lines.