The Hollow (Hercule Poirot)
by Agatha Christie
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Author: Agatha ChristieEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1984-06-01
ISBN: 042506784X
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Berkley
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- ISBN13: 9780425067840
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of The Hollow (Hercule Poirot)
Book Review: Follow Me Down to the Hollow, Where We Shall Wallow in Blood
Summary: 5 Stars
Mrs. Christie has set out to write a novel - and she has succeeded. The characters who populate the typical country-house 'The Hollow' are vivid and believable, motivated by love, jealousy, hatred and despair - but handled in a unique manner. The most important character is the victim, Dr. John Christow, whose death is the centrepoint of the romantic triangles amongst the eccentric Angkatell family, and who is linked with three women, all in love with him, but in very different ways: his worshipping wife, Gerda; his intellectual mistress, Henrietta Savernake; and his former fiancee, Veronica Cray. Naturally, the motive is jealousy, but the themes of love and jealousy are superbly handled.The detective story elements are not, however, Christie's best. The murde is quite simple - the murderer obvious - but the circumstances, involving several guns and a painting of the Norse world tree Ygdrasil, are inexplicable; and is a re-working of LORD EDGWARE DIES. Poirot is very much in the background, acting only as a deus ex machina at the end - it was a mistake, Christie later felt, to have him in the book.
The result: a beautiful yet fatally flawed masterpiece.
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