I love the bit in this book where Poirot goes over the various reasons and motives for someone to kill in general. I think it's a great mystery building (and solving) tool. This book is worth the read just for that part imo. I love the video! It was fun to follow along and listen to you after already knowing the story. I'd love to see more of these! My personal favorite Christie's are Crooked House and Towards Zero.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard good things about The Crooked House but I don't own that one, I'll have to keep an eye out for it!

Honestly, as soon as I heard that Nick was described as a liar, right at the start, I figured that this was all something she had concocted. She avoided death way too many times.

@vutruong41

2 жыл бұрын

I was convinced that Nick was telling the truth in the beginning. However, about 75% through, I remember that in Agatha's book, the killer always succeeds, and I have to flip my assumption and start thinking along the line that Nick might not be exactly innocent.

@kattahj

2 жыл бұрын

@@vutruong41 I had never heard "the killer always succeeds" and had to think back on some ACs to see if it's true. It's not! However, most of the instances I can think of where a murder fails, they have either tried to kill the protagonist, or they're revealed while they're attempting the murder. There are still some exceptions, though! But on the whole, I agree that escaping a murder attempt is suspicious in an AC novel, not to mention several!

@triumphofmagic

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@johnpotts8308

2 жыл бұрын

It was an immediate red flag for me to, though I couldn't see why you'd want to fake an attack on yourself (unlike faking your own death). And usually, when the "wrong" person is killed, it turns out that they were the real target after all.

@amyreynolds7244

2 жыл бұрын

@@vutruong41 EXACTLY. It's a rule of thumb in any Christe book that [SPOILERS] there's not such thing as a genuine attempted murder that doesn't succeed. If someone tries to kill Person A and Person A survives, then it's always Person A whodunit.

This was so cool. I think I am in the 1% of the reading population who hasn't read any Agatha Christie, but after this video, I think I need to!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you do!

This book made excellent use of the list, which Poirot doesn't often make. (He does in Dead Man's Folly and sticks a pin to determine where to start, only to be disgusted when the pin picks out someone of hardly any interest.)

I LOVE LOVE LOVED THIS! I read right along with you. I would read some, gather my own thoughts, then watch some of your video. It was like I was getting to discuss it with a friend. You would catch some things I missed and vice versa. I was completely wrong about most of it. I also kept thinking Mrs. Croft's injuries had something to do with Nick's brother's death in a motocar accident 3 years prior. PLEASE, do this again. I love Agatha Christie and this was such a fun way to read her book.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yay, I'm so glad you read along! I definitely want to do this again!

One thing I love about this novel is how Agatha Christie plays with the prejudices of her British readers. As soon as Hastings meets that young navy officer who is just SO British, Poirot instantly mistrusts him because he is just too estereotypically "sweet British navy officer lad" to be real, but Hastings DO believe his cocitizens are like that. Lol

I'm re-reading Christie's detective novels in order, and one thing that's kind of off-putting in these early ones is the casual antisemitism. Like Jim Lazarus, most of her Jewish characters are money-loving and kind of shifty. They're never outright evil, though, which I guess mitigates it a little. I think in later editions they edited some of that out - I know that in the newer edition of Lord Edgware Dies, Carlotta Adams is no longer said to love money because she's Jewish.

@jazzycat8917

2 жыл бұрын

An unfortunate mark of the time they were written. Never with any deliberate or pointed malice on Christie's part, but still with the casual acceptance of "this is a normal thing to say".

@haps2019

2 жыл бұрын

She stops doing that in the 30s. Interesting development.

@annemcintyre9620

2 жыл бұрын

She’s using common assumptions against the reader to throw suspicion and misdirection. She’s essentially insulting the reader and saying “you’re probably a little racist in this way but you’re wrong”

@patch8376

2 жыл бұрын

I'll never understand the inability of some to separate the author from her characters. The personality of her characters reflects the real personality and beliefs of some people at that time. I feel bad for succeeding generations that'll read edited versions of these books and learn a fake history, because reading repeatedly-era-fit-modified religious texts has set such a wonderful precedent for such wish-wash.

@mikanchan322

Жыл бұрын

@@annemcintyre9620 Jim Lazarus in the end is revealed to be exactly that, though- he was deceiving Nick to get an expensive painting from her for cheap.

i knew the solution to the story before watching the video, but its a lot of fun to watch the reasoning. my method is to make a big timeline and then trying to connect every fact, weird reaction and question to the timeline. a murder mystery isn't solved until every little thing is connected to the main case. i hope to see more of these in the future. there are so many great books, but one of my favorite is "the mystery of the yellow room" by gaston leroux. its from before the golden era so it doesn't fully follow the agreed rules for the genre, but i think its worth reading.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I'll look that one up, thanks for the suggestion!

SPOILERs for End House and Roger Ackroyd I love how you got the idea from Emmie and I think that the twists in the books you chose are quite similar. Like, there you have all your suspects etc. lined up, and yet in both books it ends up being someone that wasn't even on the list: in one case, the apparent victim, and in the other, the narrator. (Though I will admit, it's not that unlikely - there may or may not be a few other Christies where something of that kind is going on... so always suspect everybody!)

@amyreynolds7244

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking this, it's a very similar vibe to the end twist.

@Yawnyaman

2 жыл бұрын

There are, but I won’t spoil your enjoyment by naming them…

That was great! One you should try is Five Little Pigs, it is a cold case Poirot is trying to solve and it is super fun!

I had the unfortunate fate of reading this book way too late in my marathon-read-through of all Agatha's novels. By then, my brain had formed quite a tangible neuron network web of all the quirk Agatha used in her mystery. To be more precise, there is one rule that... (spoiler ahead, maybe) the murderer always succeeds in their killing, nothing is a coincidence, everything is planned. Because of that, I was able to guess the real culprit about 75% in. It was a pure gut guess, I didn't know the motive and such. Does anyone else in the same situation as me?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, that's both cool and too bad. I've been trying to space out my Agatha Christie reading so I don't notice these things.

@justlola417

2 жыл бұрын

Yess when I was a kid I went on an Agatha Christie spree and by the end I could almost always guess, even without knowing how to explain it; it turned into instinct at the point. Even now, I guessed who it was right when she said Maggie is the one who dies (accidental victims are usually just a the right victim with a good coverup, except when they're a test run of a plan) (or maybe I read this one before and don't remember lol)

@jujunorman4695

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. You see patterns in her tropes if you read enough of her. But I read this as a teen. It was my second Christie and totally stumped me.

@SureEnough

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I’ve read almost every book by her and when I saw this video I realized this book I haven’t read. So I left the video to read it myself and then came back here because this type of videos is so enjoyable. Well, I guessed the culprit! Not the whole story behind it of course but I caught some of the important clues.

@ashwinnair3645

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same. I didn't realise Agatha Christie had this pattern, but the fact that they said out loud that (SPOILER) the murder was a mistake made me suspect the actual killer. I figured out the motive too when she brought out the letters and saw who it was addressed to.

Amazing, I really wanna see more! Would love to see Ordeal By Innocence, Crooked House, or The Hollow get this treatment :)

@liangshanlun5142

2 жыл бұрын

Also I agree that it was great to see you surprised by the ending, as well as what you did get right :)

@seto749

2 жыл бұрын

All excellent choices, although Dame Agatha herself regretted putting Poirot into The Hollow.

This was really fun to see your face during the final twist and the ends getting wrapped up. I agree with Crooked House as a great choice for another, or the best Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder.

@drezdendolla.9143

2 жыл бұрын

Yessss! Sleeping Murder is actually my favorite Agatha Christie!

Very fun watch! Some of my favorite Christie’s are The ABC Murders, Death on the Nile, and Five Little Pigs. If you did this again, I’d love to see one of these if you’re not already familiar with them. Thanks!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

I have read all of those but it's been so long since I read Death on the Nile I don't remember a thing.

@be7e4px

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay shucks, you could maybe try Death of the Nile. Others I love and recommend as alternatives are Evil Under the Sun which particularly clever and After the Funeral.

This is such a fun idea! I think I might have to try this out sometime! I’ve only guessed two Agatha Christie’s before. Peril at End House was a fun book though. I love Hastings as a narrator and the banter between him and Poirot cracks me up.

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, which ones did you guess?

@beautifulminutiae

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay And Then There Were None and Sleeping Murder

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

@@beautifulminutiae Ooh, I haven't read Sleeping Murder yet . . . And I was so stumped on And Then There Were None, but that was also my first Agatha Christie so I'm not sure if that was part of the reason. Or maybe it's just because I make a terrible PI.

@beautifulminutiae

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay Sleeping Murder is one of my favorites! It’s was very edge of my seat for me. You’re not a bad PI for not guessing And Then There Were None. I think the only reason I guessed it was because that kind of trope has been done a lot since that book, so it made it easier for me to figure out. My husband guessed Murder on the Orient Express and I still can’t believe that 😱

@edisonlima4647

2 жыл бұрын

I love how Hastings fawns over the jovial English captain as much as Poirot dislikes him. Hastings is such a hilariously bad judge of character.

Interesting to see your thought process. I probably wouldn't have figured it out either.

No, no one could see it coming。 Lovely.

Make more of these! What a fun video! I also wanted to be a private detective way back when, hahaha I remembered a few things about this book - mostly about the Australian couple (Christie really has something for wives who pretend to be sicker than they are and dominate their husbands) and the guy who disappeared, so I was kinda confused while you explained the plot. For some reason, I remembered everything the second Maggie, including the culprit and the motive. I have no idea why, though. I mean, I really need to reread most of her books, since I've finished them all (except the short stories, I still have a bunch to go) about 15 years ago, but at the same time, when I'm rereading I'm constantly asking myself if I'm theorizing or remembering and it feels weird. :(

Okay this was so much fun! I think my favorite part was when you were completely shocked by who killed Maggie! Your face was so shocked! Loved that.. Also love the Dodge Challenger nickname :-P Also i don't get why she didn't name characters until so much later and then not even give them good names ;-) LOL

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, right?! "I don't know what to name this character, it has to be a good name . . . 150 pages later, let's go with William."

:DDD I watched emmie's video recently and I'm so happy that others have picked up the idea. I would be excited to see more of this

Such a great writer. I can appreciate a video like this 😇

Hey! I got directed here by the almighty algorithm, but in case you’re interested in more mysteries that are like this, the kind that you “can solve”, there’s a term for that: fair play mysteries! Lots of Christie’s contemporaries (colloquially lumped together as the Golden Age of Detective Novels) wrote fair play mysteries, if you ever feel like branching out! :)

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up!

@Yawnyaman

2 жыл бұрын

For example the Inspector French mysteries by Freeman Wills Croft. Sudden Death and The Hogs Back Mystery are both fair and get table. Bizarrely the clue that led me to the murderer in Hogs Back was not even mentioned in the final resume….

My first encounter with Endhouse mystery was not through a book; instead I watched the Granada adaptation. It was a two-parter, and I figured who the culprit was in between the episodes. But, interestingly, the clue that tipped me off was NOT mentioned later (it was the position of Maggie's body right after she was shot), and I still have no idea if it was just a coincidence, or someone walked the extra mile to ensure everything fits together.

the opening made me excited to watch 🕵️

The Jonh Dickson Carr Hollow Man is one of the best and most clever fair detective novel of all time, this is my suggestion.

@2msvalkyrie529

2 жыл бұрын

The Mystery of the Yellow Room ! By Gaston Leroux . One of John Dickson Carr 's top 3 mysteries . The solution is sheer genius !

It was so fun watching you read this and try and figure it out! I will say, though, the way you said Poirot's name had me dying lol.

Nick was literally the first and only person I suspected throughout the book. It’s literally because of how bad she is at acting 😂😂

I read this (listend on audible) straight after lisening to Christie's first Miss Marple story "The Murder at the Vicarage" and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was my best Poirot stery yet and never guessed the culprit, which I loved.

This was very fun to watch, I would love to see you do it again someday !

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I hope to do it again, maybe I'll actually figure it out next time!

I haven't read a single word of this book, (and haven't gotten to the end of the video obviously) but to me it almost seems like maybe every one of the suspicious characters took a single shot. That's why Freddie at the beginning said Nick was a liar. She was like "Someone tried to kill her three times? Nah, she's lying, I only tried to kill her once." *Spoiler Edit*: Totally wrong

I found an Agatha Christie book in a little free library. I have never read one before, I’m reading And then there were none. Have you read it?

@Riya-pv5zy

2 жыл бұрын

Thats my favourite Agatha Christie book! I absolutely love it

@emilyjaner5936

2 жыл бұрын

@@Riya-pv5zy yea I’m looking forward to reading it. It’s in my TBR for the month of Nov!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have read that one!

@emilyjaner5936

2 жыл бұрын

Just finished it today!! So amazing!

@kattahj

2 жыл бұрын

@@emilyjaner5936 It's really good, but darker than most of her other novels.

That was totally fun to watch you try to figure it out because I knew what the traps where. I've read these all - the only one I had not read was Witness for the Prosecution which I saved for years until a special moment. We went to London and saw the play, fantastic way to learn what happened in the only Christie I hadn't read. I think you should try one of the short stories, she has a ton and they are just as clever.

This was fun, you're very entertaining to listen to. :)

This was so much fun hope you do more.

When you said "I got SOMETHING right" lmfaooo so sad and I feel you

This was a lot of fun to watch! I have never read any Agatha Christie! *gasp*! LOL! I would love to know your recommendation on which would be a great one to start with!

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh! None?!? Hmm, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one of my favorites. The Moving Finger was probably the first one I loved but it's been so long since I read it I don't know if I would like it as much.

@Amy_loopsandliterature

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay I know!! Such a disgrace!! 🙈🤣 I have read Aggie Morton, but that probably doesn't count! Lol! I just requested both of the titles you recommended from the library! I'm excited!! Not sure why I've waited so long to give her a try!

@darkwitnesslxx

2 жыл бұрын

Separate the Poroit stories from from the Marple stories, and from the other stories....then read in chronological order. So Mysterious Affair at Styles if you go the Poroit route. Ms Marple has fewer stories. There are a few places you'll get guest appearances by lesser known detectives, Ariadne Oliver most notably, who is probably an Agatha Christie stand-in.

you are so lovely. thank you for keeping me company this evening, I hope you're doing well 💛

Came here after emmie’s video because I love the idea and I want more!!! Please do it I love this! Just subscribed!

This was such a fun video idea

This was fun! I'm terrible at solving mysteries lol

I got a lot of Agatha Christie books by one of those collectable magazine things that you get from the newsagents, one of the magazines actually spoke about when they were going through her house they found an Unedited/Unpublished (i can't quite remember) story manuscript .

I remember the first time I actually solved a Poirot mystery. I hate to tell you how many A G books I read before I knew who dunnit.

@leocarlton4364

2 жыл бұрын

Im currently 9-5 Agatha is winning, but i'm catching up! I figured this one out on page 30.

No joke I figured it out just from your video. I thought my theory was insane but it was RIGHT! I’m ecstatic

What a fun idea

I guessed it when you said Maggie was the one who was killed... Now idk if I actually guessed it just from the video or if I've read the book a long time ago and forgot lmao

I'd love to see you do this with a Marple. Maybe "The Moving Finger"

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh, that's one of my favorite Agatha Christie books!

So in retrospect the reason the maid was not familiar with the letters was that they had not been there a long time.

This one was kind of easy, because there is only one actual murder. Once you accept that it wasn't an accident, only one person has any real connection to the deceased. I'd didnt know any of the details, but knew it could only involve one suspect.

Hey! this was so much fun! thank you :)

I couldn't guess peril at end house. Loved the ending in this one!

YOOOOOO I FIGURED IT OUT I kept thinking about the person who thought Nick was making it up and I just had a feeling! I've never read the book, maybe hearing the clues without the padding of a compelling narrative helps

I really enjoyed watching this video please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 and i didn’t solve it

when i read this book i realized the truth when I was 30pages is on I obviously couldn’t prove it or know exactly why but I just knew

This was the very first Poirot novel I ever read.

This was actually one of the few that I managed to solve, but it was more bc of a random quote from Poirot than actual critical thinking.

new subscriber, can't wait for more content ^_^

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for being here!

I guessed it !!! 😂 but to be honest I did guess that it was nick from the beginning but I thought George was also in on it and was her accopmlice.

would you remind me which middle grade book series is meant to be agatha christie inspired?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

It's the Aggie Morton series!

I’m avoiding these because I haven’t read them yet! 😂♥️

Emmie just did And then there were none.... another GREAT video by her... that one led me here... js

I think it's unfair to say you were really bad at it. I think you did a good job with trying to solve it and you even got a piece of info right! I think the fact the victim was the culprit was working against you, just like the narrator being the culprit was working against emmie.

Please do this again

This was fun, Chantel! Crooked House or Five Little Pigs?

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

I've read Five Little Pigs but I've never read Crooked House!

@tomaria100

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay It's outstanding, imo.

@kattahj

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChantelReadsAllDay It's one of my favourites!

Good video. The music helped, but running some de-nosier would really help the listening experience.

SPOILER BELOW I thought it was either Lazarus (possibly with Freddie's involvement) because in Nick's second of three wardrobe changes the evening of the murder Jim and Freddie make remarks about the red shawl Nick was wearing at one point that Maggie's later wearing when she's murdered, and/or Challenger because he's present when Hastings and Poirot talk of the 1893 "box of chocolates" case that Poirot failed to solve and then Challenger accompanies Hastings and Poirot to the flower shop and George talks of sending her fruit (and I thought the coke-laced chocolate may have been almost like a taunt, almost sickly wanting to get caught...plus when we're first introduced to George near the beginning of the book he (and Nick, come to think of it) behaves like he's...on something. The taking 90 minutes to drive a 60 minute distance also is never explained, I don't think. I also suspected Nick's involvement in one way or another because of a couple of comments she makes in the aftermath of Maggie's death, with the memory of Sheppard's "nothing had been left undone" type comment in Ackroyd fresh in mind, namely "I feel as thought I killed her." and something about "...bringing her down the way I did." Anyway, at the risk of sounding like a sore loser for getting it wrong, I actually just finished this book for the first time a few hours ago and to me the actual ending and whodunit stunk of 11th hour author's whimsy to the extreme: the late add of the face in the window/Freddie's husband; the seance and original will reading leaving it to Mrs. Croft who'll "take it to her grave" how she helped Nick's dad (laziest writing this side of Hastings being sick for a chapter making said chapter easier to write); the stupid business with the watch... I just feel like book is about as good as Christie at her best for 18 chapters, a return to Styles-meets-Ackroyd form after her experimentation/divorce era that produced The Man in the Brown Suit and The Secret of Chimneys (also books that start out well and then devolve into messes in my opinion) and I've not read the Big 4 or Blue Train Mystery but reviews aren't encouraging me to rush out and do so and then for the final 4 chapters it falls off a cliff probably not unlike some that would have been found in St. Loo near End House.

I see where you got a bit twisted. The "attempts" on Nick's life. In the book, they counted 5 as an attempt. You counted 6. That was a clue. Poirot knew that was a murder and not an attempt. Because of that, Nick became one of the suspects of that crime. You were on the money about George being no good (He got Nick and Freddie addicted) ....The Crofts being crooks....Freddie and Jim love each other. Nick needed money. Too bad that Jim did not tell her about the painting. So, to me you did ok. Agatha always introduced stuff at the end.

Nice try. That is the only AC book that I have ever solved. I noticed the same names and connected the dots.

I love this idea I’m finishing the entire poirot collection this December, I’ve been on this journey one entire year and I have to say this is one of my favorites no doubt Loved seeing you thought process! I’m now regretting that I didn’t do this while reading the books🥲😅

@ChantelReadsAllDay

2 жыл бұрын

It's so fun to do this but I'm not sure if want to do it for every book, sometimes it's nice to just get lost in the story.