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stonepicnicking_okapiI realised I'd missed a few short stories in my reading timeline and wanted (for the sake of completeness) check them off. They were compiled and published one-off in various magazines. They were: The Crime in Cabin 66; Poirot and the Regatta Mystery (this would later be changed to a Parker Pyne story); The Problem at Pollenesa Bay; and The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest.
The last one is the only one I want to talk about. So in this story, the body is found in a chest the morning after a party which had taken place in the same room. There is a love triangle. It's a Poirot story and it reminded me a lot of the Hitchcock film Rope. It reminded me so much so that I looked Rope up but it is supposed to be based on the real life Loeb and Leopold case and the Christie story predates the film. But I find it rather fascinating and inspiring (the Christie story).
If I get back into my Bertie Wooster voice I would love to take this story and make it a comedy about Bertie going to an awkward dinner party and either finding the corpse or realising there is a corpse and finding it. Like take Rope and make it a comedy. I mean, Bertie Wooster was made for lifting the lid of an antique chest after putting on a gramophone record and finding a corpse and not knowing what to do about it. (Jeeves will know, of course)
So my next official read was a Mary Westmacott: The Rose and the Yew Tree. It's a romantice tragedy. And, as much as I love Aggie, I think most of her romance is pretty tragic. So a woman makes a Poor Choice and Suffers and Dies. I absolutely don't know enough about the subject, but I think the main character might today be classified on the autism spectrum. I don't know. Maybe not. But there could be some organic reasons for her choices. And the narrator is an injured soldier (not injured during the war but rather in a pedestrian crash after it) and sent to the country to rehabilitate with his sister. We see this dynamic in The Moving Finger, too, so Aggie must've known someone (or someones) like that.
Anyway I don't recommend. There are much better ways to spend your time.
But next up: Crooked House. That should be good. Last novel of the 1940's.
The last one is the only one I want to talk about. So in this story, the body is found in a chest the morning after a party which had taken place in the same room. There is a love triangle. It's a Poirot story and it reminded me a lot of the Hitchcock film Rope. It reminded me so much so that I looked Rope up but it is supposed to be based on the real life Loeb and Leopold case and the Christie story predates the film. But I find it rather fascinating and inspiring (the Christie story).
If I get back into my Bertie Wooster voice I would love to take this story and make it a comedy about Bertie going to an awkward dinner party and either finding the corpse or realising there is a corpse and finding it. Like take Rope and make it a comedy. I mean, Bertie Wooster was made for lifting the lid of an antique chest after putting on a gramophone record and finding a corpse and not knowing what to do about it. (Jeeves will know, of course)
So my next official read was a Mary Westmacott: The Rose and the Yew Tree. It's a romantice tragedy. And, as much as I love Aggie, I think most of her romance is pretty tragic. So a woman makes a Poor Choice and Suffers and Dies. I absolutely don't know enough about the subject, but I think the main character might today be classified on the autism spectrum. I don't know. Maybe not. But there could be some organic reasons for her choices. And the narrator is an injured soldier (not injured during the war but rather in a pedestrian crash after it) and sent to the country to rehabilitate with his sister. We see this dynamic in The Moving Finger, too, so Aggie must've known someone (or someones) like that.
Anyway I don't recommend. There are much better ways to spend your time.
But next up: Crooked House. That should be good. Last novel of the 1940's.
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