Sunday, September 17, 2017

Easy to Kill

Easy to Kill (also known as Murder Is Easy) was the twenty-eighth novel written by Agatha Christie. It as about Luke Fitzwilliam, a freshly retired policeman returning to England from Asia, who ends up in a alone in a compartment on a train with an elderly woman. The woman tells Luke about some recent deaths in the village she lives in and how she believes they are all homicides. She is on her way to Scotland Yard to tell them about her hunches because the constable and everybody else in her village would just laugh. The following day, Luke reads in the newspaper that she was hit by a car and was killed walking to Scotland Yard. Luke decides to go investigate the deaths and gather some evidence to give Scotland Yard, so he goes to the village, posing as an author writing a book about the local folklore.

This book is credited as a Superintendent Battle novel, but he doesn’t appear until the last two or three chapters of the story. There are a number of suspects like in the authors other stories, but unlike most of them, the reader can start guessing who the murderer is before they are actually exposed. It is a good story.

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World of Sleuths Rating: ***
(Three out of five stars)

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