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Dead Man's Folly
by Christie
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Pocket (1984-11-02)
ISBN: 0671543180
EAN: 9780671543181
Paperback: 224 pages
SKU: 11369
Condition: Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Good. Slightly creased spine.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Well-known mystery writer Ariadne Oliver organizes a Murder Hunt as the main event at the Fete held on the grounds of Nasse House. Every detail is arranged -- and the stage is set for murder. Suspecting that something isn't quite right Ariadne Oliver telephones her old friend, Hercule Poirot, for help.
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Customer Reviews
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Vintage Poirot
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-19
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Discovering an Agatha Christie mystery you've never read is like discovering gold. And Dead Man's Folly is Hercule Poirot at his best. Even near the end of the book, you wonder if he is actually going to be able to solve this one.
Good friend and mystery writer, Ariadne Oliver, unexpectedly calls Poirot and imperiously demands the little detectives' presence at a village fete in Devon, where a Mystery Hunt is about to take place. She worries that it won't just be a fake murder. Intrigued, our hero immediately takes the train to the village of Nassecombe to try to put a stop to whatever is afoot. Mrs. Oliver turns out to be correct in her assumptions and Hercule is terribly perturbed that he wasn't able to prevent it. As usual there are lots of red herrings and a totally convoluted solution. An excellent read.
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WILL SOMEONE LET THE WOMAN SPEAK?
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-05-14
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
What "improvements" have been made for the Berkley edition? There are already major differences in punctuation, word choices, and scene breaks between the original Collins and Dodd Mead editions of this novel. There are further differences between the Dodd Mead editions republished by Random House/Avenel and the Dodd Mead editions republished by Simon & Shuster/Pocket. There are further differences still in the Signet, Bantam, and Black Dog & Leventhal editions. For every publishing house putting out her works, there seem to be a new batch of editors altering Agatha Christie's words and the sound of her voice. What's the matter with these publishers? Whose voice do they think we want to hear when we sit down to a novel by Agatha Christie? And what will she sound like twenty years from now? It's frightening that her estate has failed to see the importance of guarding her words as she wrote them. Please tell me I'm not the only one here who senses that a crime has been committed.
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Hercule Poirot performs a miracle . . .
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-06-02
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
and solves this crime in the last few pages of the book, with little to go on and less proof than usual that what he says is right. Agatha doesn't let us see the wheels working in this book, as she usually does, which is disappointing. The solution suddenly came about in a big rush after many chapters spent dithering around with a story. Granted, it's an interesting story -- but in the end, I was left wanting more.
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I just love Mrs. Oliver
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-16
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I started reading this story but lost interest part way through. when I finished it, it was by listening to David Suchet's excellent reading on an audio book. One of the chief attractions for me in this book is the wonderfully random Mrs. Oliver. She just cracks me up with her hairdos and outfits and idiotic comments. Of course the story is great, Christie at her best...I didn't guess the murderer, but I like to be surprised.
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The worst one from Christie's I've read.
Rating  (2)
Date: 2006-04-04
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is easily the worst mystery I've read from Dame Agatha. It's drab in comparison to her other works, and the big set-up ends in a big let-down. It's simply forgettable and pedestrian.
If you skip it, you won't miss anything.
Suggestions: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death On the Nile, Murder On the Orient Express, Peril At End House, and the non-Poirot one, And Then There Were None.
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