Book Review
The Mystery of Three Quarters
by Sophie Hannah
Harper Collins © 2018
Plot Summary:
Poirot has a problem. The famously meticulous a discreet detective is approached by three irate strangers who insist he accused them of the murder of Barnabus Pandy. Who is Barnabus Pandy? Was he indeed murdered? Poirot would never knowingly accuse an innocent person of murder!
Who would pen letters from the famous Hercule Poirot?
My Thoughts:
This is not an overall bad mystery. I think my dislike of the novel has more to do with my love of Agatha Christie and Poirot than anything. Sophie Hannah wrote a nice mystery which was fairly compelling. She did not write a Poirot mystery, however.
I am not sure if she does not get Poirot, or if she determined she would give her own perspective to the famously quirky detective. In her adaptation, Poirot is still a quirky detective from Belgium, however, I found that he lost some of the, (dare I say) je ne sais quoi, that made me love his mysteries.
Not a bad book, just not the book I was anticipating based on what it purported itself to be on the cover and in the description.