Reconsidering a Bad Mystery Novel

Maybe Agatha Christie’s worst book was her best

Earnest Painter
ILLUMINATION
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5 min readSep 27, 2020

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“Agatha Christie” by L’Orso Sul Monociclo is licensed under CC BY 2.0

“This must be the worst Agatha Christie book ever.”

“Predictable”

“The math is off, so badly and so often…”

I heard a story on NPR describing how Professor Ian Lancashire of the University of Toronto had analyzed several of Agatha Christie’s novels. He…

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Earnest Painter
ILLUMINATION

Writer, reader, artist, owner of cats. My novelette, Carmela’s Outside, is due to be released this year. • ratherearnestpainter.com