I like that Agatha Christie gives some of her books nursery rhyme titles, so here’s another one I grabbed from a local charity shop – I wonder if there are any others, I’ve read a few now!
The title has very little to do with the story other than she does manage to tell it broken into sections which come under each line of the poem. The incident is actually set in a dentist’s surgery – Poirot goes for an appointment in the morning, then around lunchtime, the dentist is found dead with a gun by him; all signs point to suicide, but Poirot thinks there’s more too it.
I walked past my dentist surgery in the week and couldn’t work out why it gave me the creeps, until I remembered that I was reading this!
It’s good fun (murder aside), Poirot is on form as ever, and it keeps you guessing the whole way through. I do struggle sometimes with remember who each character is, but that’s probably more on me than the author!
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