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.
If
interested in reading this book, you can purchase it at the following
sites:
Barnes
& Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/murder-is-easy-agatha-christie/1100091953?ean=9781628990447
World
of Sleuths Rating: ***
(Three
out of five stars)
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