General rules for Agatha Christie: - It's never an accident - It's always about the motive - Anyone who went missing "years ago" will invariably turn up, probably as the murderer - Look at anyone who nobody suspects, because they're probably the guiltiest!

@weirdbeard2244

2 жыл бұрын

If there’s an obvious person, but they have an alibi, the alibi is fake.

@doritosrbest3769

2 жыл бұрын

If there's an obviously suspicious person, it's not them

@dearlolly2293

2 жыл бұрын

@@weirdbeard2244 YESS

@Bgie-vu2jp

2 жыл бұрын

That last one fr, because when she was listing all the people i offhandedly thought “hmm she should take a look at the narrator” and just kept listening

@bookcat123

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, but in most cases 5 people who disappeared years ago will have all turned up, and only one of them actually did it…

The reason I respect this book and don't find it a cop-out ending is that the murderer never lies. Sometimes they lie by omission, I suppose, but they never fabricate any information. Some of those moments are so cleverly worded that it sounds like a lie but it isn't! Clever Christie.

@nicole-ls4jb

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. I now try to just read her books and enjoy, rather than try and solve them. I was never right, anyway 😆 By the way, in the book there is no "row of stars," he just says something along the lines of, "Should I have done so?", so you didn't miss out on that because you listened to the audio book.

@christianemden7637

2 жыл бұрын

It‘s Agatha christie‘s genius, to actually always provide fair mystery thrillers and still successfully misleading the reader.

@vutruong41

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this is a one in a life time twist that only Agatha Christie can pull off

@sarasamaletdin4574

2 жыл бұрын

When the book was published it was controversial for this reason, but like Christie herself said, he never lied directly.

@pvuccino

2 жыл бұрын

First time I read it, I felt robbed. Second time I read it, I found it genius. The only problem I have with is that so many damn people from the house went to the gazebo at the time of the murder for different, innocent reasons. That seems a bit of a cop out.

My dad tried to spoil this book for me while I was reading it by alluding to the twist. Thankfully, I am an idiot and did not pick up on it.

I saw this title and thought, "oh, of all Agatha Christie books... you chose the one with THAT ending!" 😂 This was fun, though! I would totally watch you do this with other mystery books!

@christianemden7637

2 жыл бұрын

She could have chosen curtain ;-)

@lesleyann5118

2 жыл бұрын

@@christianemden7637 Hah! True… maybe she should try a regular one first.

@kilmouski4220

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing.

@thesoyangel8243

2 жыл бұрын

Orient express! If she hasn't watched it Orrrr Death on the Nile for sure

@lesleyann5118

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesoyangel8243 another one that would probably frustrate anyone trying to solve it!

You will never be able to guess the twist of this book. Its so brilliantly written that it makes you suspect everyone except the the person you should be suspecting.

@l.m.5319

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao and yet somehow my 12 Yr old sister who has zero logic skills whatsoever somehow figured it out like 30 pages into the book 😭😭 no idea how she did it. I had it spoiled for me so ill never know if I'd have worked it out lol

@heyseuss3576

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I just wish we'd stop saying this to people who are still reading/haven't read it yet (not you of course, but for example people in her previous reading vlogs)

@zairish1346

2 жыл бұрын

@@l.m.5319 I did too, and I have no clue how I did it

@pp5000-rq8vx

2 жыл бұрын

@@zairish1346 yeah me too i was really annoyed with the ending actually

@dianeyoung8130

2 жыл бұрын

@@l.m.5319 I did too. She describes her characters in a way where you just know.

This was my first agatha christie book. I love it so much. The verbiage when the narrator is leaving in chapter four (just before the discovered murder) is very well done. "I hesitated with my hand on the door handle, looking back and wondering if there was anything I had left undone" and when he gets home "I had to make up a slightly fictitious account of the events in order to satisfy her (his sister)". You draw conclusions that these things are in reference to the blackmail letter, but looking back it's about the murder. You're not really being lied to, just left to draw conclusions of your own

@loreleimonn3220

Жыл бұрын

It was my first of her books too. I remember reading it and thinking the narrator’s words seemed so delicately chosen to insinuate certain conclusions without outright stating anything. And then when I got to the last chapter and had all of my suspicions confirmed, it was incredible

@bretsheeley4034

9 ай бұрын

Just finished the book and found this video. The first thing that tripped me up in regards to Sheppard was the time after he came back after the body was discovered. It sounded as if he had gone straight home, but only in the next chapter was it brought up that he went to the Inn to talk to Ralph in that time. He mentioned that he didn't want to bring it up, but the fact that he left it out of the narrative at the time it occurred rubbed me wrong. However I did have to laugh at the section where Poirot literally read the first 20 chapters of the book I was reading to look for clues. I started having Spaceballs flashbacks. Oh, and one other detail I discovered in regard to Christie audiobooks... always read a hardcopy of the book while you listen. The audiobooks leave out diagrams of the rooms and letters, etc.

@HuntingViolets

Ай бұрын

An absolutely fair-play mystery and brilliantly done.

"It is completely unimportant, that is why it is so interesting." One of my favorite Poirot lines that comes from this book.

emmie : explaining how roger omited the blackmailer's name to sheppard, which may indicate the blackmailer's identity as someone very close to sheppard (like his sister caroline). me : hee hee

If you'd just taken the time to list all the suspects, in the way Poirot would, you'd have noticed that there were TWO suspects you were subconsciously ignoring. One is Poirot himself, who should technically be a suspect, and the other is the Doctor. Listing ALL the suspects leads to the solution to several well known Agatha Christie's.

@MissCaraMint

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Poirot absolutely should be a suspect.

@inshaali2576

2 жыл бұрын

But what motive would the detective have? He isn't in need for money, he's bored ig but not to the extent of creating a crazy mystery murder type of situation, surely? I can't think of anything else while for Dr Sheppard I do believe had a motive, hiding the identity of the blackmailer (which I believe is Caroline, the sister, and not the Doctor)

@Hopning

2 жыл бұрын

There are even several moments in the book where the doctor says things like "Only Poirot and me were at X place" or "Only [random character] and me do not have an alibi", which is what made me suspicious of the doctor when I was reading it, but they are so easy to dismiss and make you focus on the other characters

@bettymae7042

Жыл бұрын

Yes, if you think about it logically, of course Dr. Sheppard should be included, as well as Poirot.

@detectiveandspynovels7140

3 ай бұрын

Not every one in the novel is a suspect. A detective is not supposed to be a criminal, in classical novel. As the Dr was acting as an assistant of the detective , he was given the benefit of being not among suspects.But Agatha Christie found a loop in the basic rule of detective novels. That is even the assistant of a detective should be a suspect. This shews that the only person who cannot be a suspect is the detective , and none other than the detective.

You should definitely read Pierre Bayard's book "Who killed Roger Ackroyd?" ! He disagrees with Poirot's solution, so he wrote this bool to solve the murder himself.

@juliamavroidi8601

2 жыл бұрын

TIL Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a parody title

@kahkah1986

2 жыл бұрын

I know, he kind of agrees with Emmie...

@meegaan1

2 жыл бұрын

I cannot read that as I find the absolute gall of someone writing a book about how a dead author got her own work WRONG to be ludicrous and self-aggrandizing. Also, he fell into the trap Agatha Christie set for all of us by having the narrator cast suspicion on his sister and just. It’s ok dude. 😂

@kahkah1986

2 жыл бұрын

@@tamagothchic Actually, I thought it made the story more interesting by suggesting a different way of reading detective fiction, it makes you look more carefully at all the little plot details in the book and think of the characters and their motivations, we don't have to just accept the detective's summing up at the end as the 'truth', it is more a part of the story that way. The doctor at the end could very easily be taking the fall to protect his sister, we learn about the case from his diary rather than an omniscient narrator, so it is classic unreliable narrator territory.

@samm7334

2 жыл бұрын

@@meegaan1 some people take "Death of the Author" more literal than others, I guess.

There's an Agatha Christie book called "The Body in The Library" in her Mrs Marple series that I think would be fun to try and solve like you did with this book :)

@amyreynolds7244

2 жыл бұрын

SECONDED. If you decided to do any Marple, do this one. It is *chef's kiss*

The ending of this book caught me so off guard but I found it great instead of annoying. It makes for a great re-read when you get to see all the clues because the doctor never lies. The discrepancy in the timings, him bringing his black bag (you even picked up on it early on!), being left in the room, his losing the money, caroline's comments about him. How you suspected Caroline, I'm not entirely sure. I have to ask though, why would you listen to a murder mystery on 1.5x speed. You'd obviously miss certain points or the subtleties in language that are trying to trick you. It was a fun video though! I'd recommend getting a physical copy just to be able to annotate and mark pages to go back for clues if using for solving purposes ^^

@Hopning

2 жыл бұрын

There are a few moments where the doctor basically says "only me and x character were there at that time" or "only me and x character could have done y", which are so easy to miss or just ignore, especially listening to an audiobook at a faster speed

It was so fantastic watching you follow almost exactly the same path that I did when it first read this book. Just like you, I let my assumptions go unchecked and the ending caught me off guard. It was only after watching your video that I realised why we both suspected and disliked the sister - it's because she's being described to us by her brother, who doesn't like her. This novel is an amazing study of narrative prejudice. I almost feel that it should be required reading for journalists, showing how our true feelings always come out in our writing, no matter what. By the way, there is no row of stars in the print book. Shepherd only wonders out loud of they would have made a difference.

@rangergrrrl

2 жыл бұрын

Was just about to write a comment about that row of stars, but you beat me to it...

@EmmettMcFly55

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know whether Sheppard dislikes his sister - he loves her enough that Poirot basically convinces him to commit suicide rather than let things go to a trial so that Caroline won't have to find out about her brother being a murderer, and though he's irritated by her sometimes, it didn't occur to me to read any more into that than an ordinary sibling relationship - after all, Caroline does act like she knows it all on very little basis sometimes. Doesn't she claim at some point that Roger Ackroyd's death was due to poison? Not to mention that he's likely to be more irritated with her than usual due to the stress of hiding having committed a murder (although, admittedly, he's confident enough about his hiding skills that he thinks he can write a narrative about Poirot's great failure.)

@dearlolly2293

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmmettMcFly55 I agree. they had a pretty normal relationship with each other and I don't think either of them hated the other.

@Vic-sw1td

11 ай бұрын

Sheppard most definitely doesn't dislike his sister, the very end of the book makes it clear he loves her more than himself. He's just irritated by her, which is not uncommon for living siblings

@HuntingViolets

Ай бұрын

This is a great point.

This is an amazing idea. Just sat down with a cup of coffee after day long classes, and this feels like some popular crime documentary. This is so freaking cool

@avijitsarkar7151

2 жыл бұрын

which university r u in

There's a tradition amongst taxi drivers in London (England) when depositing a play-goer outside the theatre where Agatha Christie's long -running "The Mousetrap" is being performed. If the disgruntled cab driver considers he has been insufficiently tipped he waits until the play-goer is about to enter...rolls down the window and yells..."the butler did it!" or words to that effect (no spoilers here but "The Mousetrap" HAS been running since 1952!)

@skyhideaway

2 жыл бұрын

That's so funny omg

@michaelsommers2356

2 жыл бұрын

The play closed due to the pandemic.

@anthares96

2 жыл бұрын

i'd be colossally pissed at that. i paid you for the fare, i don't owe you a tip

@darkwitnesslxx

2 жыл бұрын

There is no butler in The Mousetrap. It takes place at a BnB

@saoirsedeltufo7436

2 жыл бұрын

You don't generally tip cabbies...

Well, that's the point! That's why it's called a plot twist. Plus, there's something in literature called an "unreliable narrator", like in the Tell-tale heart by Edgar Allan poe.

@jmsl910

2 жыл бұрын

also catcher in the rye

The beauty of this mystery novel is that when you read it a second time, knowing the backstory, the same words you read take on a completely different meaning.

@HuntingViolets

Ай бұрын

I love to reread this, but that's true of so many of her books.

your reaction is exactly how I felt. it feels disappointing at first but when you reread it, the clues are there.

@amyreynolds7244

2 жыл бұрын

This book is so much more fun as a re-read! Every time I've re-read it I've noticed little tiny things I never saw before and was like 0.0 IT'S RIGHT THERE

@vos7619

2 жыл бұрын

I just finished it and I'm surprised at how many people were disappointed...I mean I was very surprised, I did not see it coming.

@davidgil6485

2 жыл бұрын

@@vos7619 Yeah same, i loved it, it's very surprising but at the same time it's very convincing. Like at least for me it gets to a point where the "normal" suspects just don't make sense anyomore but I can't figure it out. So when he says it it's so satisfactory

Whoa that was a great one. Make this a series, emma! I would religiously watch them.

@megantouchton4636

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Hope to see more of these!

Agatha Christie used to say that the character of Caroline ("the nosey village spinster") was the inspiration for her other great sleuth Miss Jane Marple.

"Do you know who's the murderer ?" "Well, of course i know him, he's me"

"i love dinner parties, especially when they end in murder" excellent quote

Me, who's read the book: *looks at title* Oh, this is going to be GOOD

This is such an amazing video idea!! Also, i recommend "the mirror cracked from side to side", "crooked house" and "endless night", some of my favourite agatha christies!!^-^

@nayrieshahenean5363

2 жыл бұрын

hell yeah, crooked house was amazing

@katrinavangrouw8843

2 жыл бұрын

Crooked House was the only Agatha Christie I've managed to solve so far! So good.

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh I’ll have to do those in the next episodes👀

@skyhideaway

2 жыл бұрын

Crooked House was phenomenal!

@booklanerecommendations

2 жыл бұрын

My favorites are Five Little Pigs and Sleeping Murder, but I loved the twist in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. I love twists where the clues are right in your face and yet you don't notice them: it's like those videos where you watch the ball and never realize there's a gorilla dancing in the background.

It seems to me that your channel never runs out of ideas! 😍 We stan a real queen

@radhika5933

2 жыл бұрын

Hi pls read ( Secrets of sanatan dharma ) available on Amazon and kindle

Love how comfortable Emma is getting on camera, lately her jokes have been simply *chef’s kiss*

I was SO upset when I read this, I’d heard it was Agatha’s best twist but I figured it out about halfway through when it was revealed flora hadn’t been in the room which meant dr shepherd would have been the last person to see him alive

@feuilletoniste

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry that you didn’t get to enjoy being as astonished by the ending as most readers, but on the plus side that must mean that you have quite a remarkable analytical mind! Perhaps you could try writing mysteries yourself. 🥸

@audib6592

Жыл бұрын

I didn't figure it out but I knew Flora was lying from jump about seeing her uncle last.😅

Such a fun concept for a video! I would say, had it been me, I would have probably gone for a physical copy to annotate and look back through for clues. It's kind of hard to skim through an audiobook and thus doesn't really lend itself to those "wait a second //flips back 80 pages// oh, of COURSE!" moments. Although I will say I'm very impressed that you can listen to murder mysteries on 1.5x speed and still pick up all the names and details and remember them as you're listening!

love watching emma get more and more unhinged and obsessed as the video goes on also can we just take a moment to appreciate her handwriting on that whiteboard?? Who can write that well on a freaking whiteboard?????

This was such a fun idea, can't wait! I used to get this magazine that had all the characters in each book and it set the scene for you so you could try to work it out. Also, Hugh Fraser is the guy who played Hastings in the TV series! (if you do another of these, you should totally do a premiere thing so you can get the live chat going alongside it, because this video is riveting!) edit no.3... gahhh that ending, I'd be annoyed too!

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

That is the best idea, will definitely premiere the next one!

@lindaa7373

2 жыл бұрын

i was just looking in the comments to see if it rlly is the actor who played Hastings. that man has an unmistakable voice for sure

I read the book a couple of years ago and I was absolutely blown away, like most of the readers out there. I'm happy to watch you solve the mystery, brainstorming the ideas and theories 😁

What a great video premise!! And you executed it so well, too. I'd love to see it with a detective novel where this kind of sleuthing actually pays off because you're clearly rly good at that. I get why this ending messes so much with people; it's less about a clever murderer duping a bunch of other characters and more about Agatha Christie directly duping the reader. I started watching this video without having read the book; I'm not really a detective story person, and the last Agatha Christie novel I read was like 10 years ago. About halfway through I thought to myself, 'you know what, since everyone says the twist is so mindblowing, I wanna experience it for myself'. So I tracked the book down and read it. (spoilers obvi) When I got to the part in the beginning where Sheppard gets the phone call about Roger Ackroyd's death and rushes to the house, only to have Parker deny that he ever made that call - that's when I became suspicious of our narrator. I went back to check the exact description of him getting the phone call, and yeah, he never mentions Parker and only ever describes his own side of the conversation! Why would Christie leave the other side out? All I knew at that point was that this novel had a crazy twist, so like ... Sheppard had to be involved in something. I continued reading and picked up on more and more small, weird omissions. Sheppard not telling the reader about his detour to the inn where Ralph was staying, or about the subject matter of his conversation with Miss Russell in the very beginning (which is later revealed to be kind of important so why leave it out??), his lack of surprise at Flora's lie about speaking to Roger on the night of his murder (which Poirot points out is weird!!). And so many other things: Sheppard trying to dissuade Flora from getting Poirot involved is kinda strange; Caroline is constantly dropping hints about how Sheppard is super secretive and unreadable; Poirot keeps asking Sheppard to repeat his account of the story to everyone they meet (to catch him in a lie?) and sends him on irrelevant side quests (to keep him out of the way); after reading Sheppard's 'journal' Poirot literally points out how much of the author's personality Sheppard omits from the story. NONE of those things are 'clues' in the murder mystery sense, and I would 100% have missed them if I hadn't been looking for them, but since I was already set on Sheppard being the killer/blackmailer it all stood out really starkly. Sheppard's disdain for his sister suddenly makes sense: he can't really blackmail people if their secrets have already been spread around by Caroline. Christie even drops the fact that Sheppard tinkers with mechanical devices in his spare time, so as soon as Poirot mentions the dictaphone at the end there was no doubt left to me. Right before the reveal, I went back to read the conversation between Sheppard and Ackroyd more closely, and it all fits in with Sheppard being the murderer and blackmailer even though not a word of what our narrator says is untrue. Mind you, none of this had anything to do with me being any kind of sleuth. I never figured out any of the side stories that you picked up on, like the Ursula/Ralph thing! For most of the book I had no clue how it happened; I thought at various points that maybe Sheppard was in cahoots with Miss Russell, or Raymond, or even that he was the one who poisoned Mr Ferrars one year ago. I suck at putting together murder mystery hints. But I did pick up on the literary hints, and I think that's conceivably the only way to 'solve' this story / predict the ending without it feeling like it came out of nowhere. (The fact that you listened to the audiobook probably made it borderline impossible to notice all the instances of weird or suspiciously vague phrasing, which makes it feel extra frustrating) Sorry for this literal novel of a comment but tl;dr: The murder of Roger Ackroyd is probably the ONE detective story where it actually pays off to suck at detective stories. (I will say though, the fact that Sheppard GAVE Poirot his journal to read is some Hannibal Lecter level of cold-blooded confidence lol)

@louisacoote2337

2 жыл бұрын

The journal moment was a big tip-off for me!

I really enjoyed your mystery solving. It was neat to go through all the clues. I'm sure the white board will be a good investment. There should be so many other things you could use it for down the road.

Literally busted out laughing while I read this Poirot line, “I beg of you a thousand pardons, but these vegetable marrows, they have driven me to the edges of barbarity! Ah, please to forgive me. I am ashamed; I prostrate myself.”

I think you might be able to figure out the mystery behind either Cat Among the Pigeons or Third Girl if you were wanting to give Agatha and Poirot another chance. 😊 Love your channel!!

Just hearing you describe the events I actually guessed that it was the doctor, but i can imagine how reading it from his perspective could mess with your mind. Such a great concept for a video!!!

Love this idea! I think Cards on the Table or Hallowe'en party would work well for this. The former has a very narrow list of suspects but it's probably my favourite of them all, just because how wrong my guesses were

@RoobeeBlue

2 жыл бұрын

Cards on the Table was one of my first Christies, when I was about 12, and it's phenomenal!

@booklanerecommendations

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh if you like the narrow list of suspects, you should read Five Little Pigs! I liked that even more than Cards on the Table :)

@MissCaraMint

2 жыл бұрын

Cards on the Table, Five Little Pigs, and Hercules Poirot’s Christmas. Those are all good, and the clues are there to notice.

love this video so much would love to see a series of this type of video! spoilers ahead: you don't understand the pride I am feeling since when you said you were thinking it could be a Romeo and Juliet situation with poison or something and then you were like nooo the doctor would know if it was poison and I was just like unless... hear me out... he's in on it.

This is such a wonderful video! Between the atmosphere and the deductions I was captivated the entire time. I can't wait for more in this series!!!

This was so much fun to watch. I really enjoyed this book, as I usually guess the murderer before the end, but was completely blindsided in this one. I have started reading the Poirot's in publication order a few years ago, and started today the very last one!

@ameliamoonbeam5799

2 жыл бұрын

I have listened and to all the poirot books and am now halfway through curtain but I was so hesitant to start it as I don't want it to be over!!

@bananaboatcharlie

2 жыл бұрын

To the people who are reading Curtain for the first time: How are you doing? Are you guys okay?

@amyreynolds7244

2 жыл бұрын

@@bananaboatcharlie I READ THAT BOOK ONCE AND I REFUSE TO EVER READ IT AGAIN BECASUE IN MY HEAD IT NEVER HAPPENED I REFUSE!

This is actually an amazing idea for a video omg now i want a series

I’ve read several Agatha Christie books, to this day I still haven’t solved one.

i would LOOOOVE to see more of these videos!!! I love Agatha Christie, I've read so many of her books, and I've watched as many adaptations of the books as I could get my hands on. It's so exciting to see someone's journey through the story!!

This was ever so much fun, please do more 🙏 I recently started reading Agatha's books, and happened to start with this one. I too had no idea who it was

Wow I was waiting for this one since you dropped some hints about it in a previous video... It's so creative of you to think such amazing ideas... Really appreciate the effort! 🍁💕

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely made the reading experience better too, thank you dear!!💕

so fun to look back on this video and see the view count growing, go off emmie! you truly deserve all the recognition

this was the first video i ever saw of yours recommended to me and i clicked immediately lmao i loved the video! would love to watch you try more of these detective videos again :)

This was so fun to watch! It's such a different way of digesting a mystery novel

I just finished reading "Dumb Witness" the other day and I love Christie in general, and I have to say the best ones are the ones with character narrators. An anonymous narrator just doesn't have the same opportunities.

What a FUN video! Having read the book, I could not wait to see your reaction at the end. I really hope you do more of these videos!! You are a great detective even if you were “duped” this time like almost everyone on the planet :)

this is so cool!! I coincidentally just finished this book a few days ago and its also just such a fun mystery with a twist you never see coming! love your channel sm

Found your channel today and now I'm addicted 💜 I've read lots of AG books, definitely this one has a controversial ending... but also one of the best plot twists ever!

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Awe hi so nice to meet you! 💙

When I listened to this book last year, I actually had worked it out by the point you stopped to make your final deductions. I was like: wait... What if it's? Omg, it is, it is. Everything fits!! Omg, I actually worked it out!! It was the best feeling in the world to have gotten it right Amit was so much fun seeing you try to work it out. It reminded me of a story I loved and was so interesting to see someone else's perspective of it💛💛

i havent even watched the video yet and i am so excited that you have showed up in my recommendeds. The alogirthm has blessed me with a new channel to binge watch.

I've added this to my TBR as soon as you've mentioned that you're going to make a video of this solving the mystery. I stopped myself from watching this before reading it so I wont get spoiled, and it was hard cause I watch your videos religiously lol. Months have passed now, I finished reading it today and I immediately jumped this video-- gurl, I was caught off guard as much as you have. But it was real fun! I hope you make more of these videos so we can solve the mysteries together.

haven’t even finished watching yet but i’m having so much fun!! please do more of these😍

SPOILERS BELOW Tbh, I totally saw the twist coming. I knew going into it that it was one of her most well-known mysteries and that it supposedly had a really mind-blowing twist, and based on that fact and the fact that we have a first person narrator alone, I assumed the narrator was the murderer. It’s been a while since I’ve read a Poirot book, so I might be wrong, but I believe most of them are in third person, even if they follow one person in particular. And the fact that it was in first person tipped me off to something being weird about the narrator. I recently read another book where I figured out the same plot twist based on that singular fact alone as well. Stuff like this has happened to me way too many times- I’m told a book has a massive plot twist, and I guess the twist either before reading (aka based on the premise) or very early on in the book. And this is why I hate being told that a book has a massive plot twist or is particularly twisty, because I’m looking for it before I even start the book, which is not how the book was intended to be read.

@deepsharma8591

Жыл бұрын

lmao i can relate to this

@shalini3382

2 ай бұрын

This was what I also thought because usually books are written in 3rd person pov but this one was in first person there has to be a reason for it. Another example is The silent patient

Hi Emmie, This is the first video of yours I have ever seen and I liked it very much! I enjoyed going through the book with no effort from me. I barely looked at my phone while watching! Thank you for getting me excited to read some more mystery!

I am impressed at the dedication of all the details of clues and writing everything down on your board. That is impressive. I only hope Christie spent as much time documenting how it was done when she created it as you did trying to pull it apart. :)

This was so fun. Would love you to see you do it again with one of her more "standard" stories!

Thank you Emma, this video was really original and funny! It would be amazing doing something like that in a live, like we all read the same Agatha christie's novel until the page where Poirot is going to reveal what really happened and then we discuss our theories in the live discovering together the ending of the book

Refreshing way to experience Agatha Christie’s books. Since I have read most of her books including this one, its really interesting to see how you unraveled the mystery, particularly being misled at points. Love to watch more similar please

ahhh this was so cool!! I've never seen anything like it, but I freaking loved it!! Please please please do more - it was so much fun!!:)

Ngl, that's one of the Agatha Christie books I love 🤣 I'm there for the "Wha? Whoah! Wha?????!!!" when all is revealed. That being said, I would be peeved too if I was playing this as a murder mystery game, but what you're doing does look fun!

You make me want to do a murder solving party :P !! Also knowing who did it and watching you was so interesitng ! I think my christie fan friend told me there are some clues left in the narrative that are weird once you know he is the culprit :P if you have any will left you should try listening/reading to his first chapters !!

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Ah do it we had so much fun, I’m sure doing a group buddy read of a Christie novel would be amazing - and ooh yes I’ll have to go back and listen to it again now!!

@kahkah1986

2 жыл бұрын

@@emmiereads That would be totally cool, there are a couple of Christie books that actually make you rethink things once you know the solution, One Two Buckle My Shoe and Lord Edgeware Dies imo.

@amyreynolds7244

2 жыл бұрын

@@kahkah1986 Damn I love Lord Edgeware Dies. My favorite murderer in all of Christe's pantheon.

Omg this is my FAVORITE Agatha Christie book so when I happened to stumble upon this video I got soooo excited. This was so cool to see your thought process

omg i read this book last year and it blow up my mind! agatha is the queen of mystery books and she did so good with this one!

God...this is such a coincidence...I just finished reading this book and you've uploaded a video on it... anyways it was so helpful...as all the times stances were a bit confusing to me and I thought of reading it again.....thank you so much ✨

From 32:00 I just kept on biting my nails. It GAVE ME LITERAL CHILLS to solve this mystery with you Emma. I had SUCH a good time!!

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Awe yay so glad you liked it!! Can’t wait for the next one👀

Emma!! I can't believe you're almost at 200k this is amazing!!

This is an amazing idea, and you did great! There are some Agatha Christie books where there's a twist like this (the assistant or the person who asked for the detective's help or someone who I'd never even considered as an option for a suspect, or even a completely different solution like in the Orient express), she basically wrote the blueprint for all the twists we see nowadays, but I think usually if you pay attention you can figure it out. I never try to solve it, I don't stop to think about it before reaching the end but I know people who do and they generally say it's possible. I'd love to see you do another one of these!!

this was so creative and so much fun! you did such an amazing job! i was trying to follow along, but i'm so bad with murder mysteries lol now i want to go and read all the agatha christie books and try to solve them myself. i do love an unreliable narrator though i can see how frustrating that can be in a book like this.

I'm so glad this showed up in my recommendations! Roger Ackroyd was my first Agatha Christie and my first experience with an unreliable narrator. You did so great, especially since this book is stacked so much against us to solve!

@felisd

2 жыл бұрын

This was also my first Agatha Christie! It motivated me to read almost everything she's ever written because her solutions to the crimes were so incredibly well done. (Though I could never get into the Miss Marples because too much depended on things like "oh, this reminds me of my neighbour's third cousin's sister who had a dog just like that and this was how SHE died, so that MUST be the solution here".)

@amyreynolds7244

2 жыл бұрын

@@felisd Some of the Marples are like that and I don't care for them, but Body in the Library and The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side are LEGIT amazing.

@felisd

2 жыл бұрын

@@amyreynolds7244 I'll give those a shot then! Thanks. :)

I really loved this video. You were so committed and clearly disappointed afterwards. It was so much fun to watch!

I finished the book today and was honestly grinning through the last few chapters can't really talk to anyone about it so i am super grateful for your video

This is like a Clue on steroids 😆😆😆 I love the whiteboard breakdowns with Detective Emma!

Amazing video!!! This book was my first ever detective story, some 30 years ago, and it is still my favourite. I was so blown away by it. It made me fall in love with detective stories. If you check the physical copy, it is written in a really clever way. Try Death on The Nile please. I think there is a good chance you guess the who and why, but putting everything together in a logical way is really the hard part.

@louisacoote2337

2 жыл бұрын

I came close on the who and the why on Death on the Nile.

@Wats06071

2 жыл бұрын

@@louisacoote2337 I read it at time when I have read many of her books, so I guessed the who and why (once you guess one the other follows), but boy! I never figured out the how.

LOVE this!! This was so fun to watch I need more! I might just have to pick up some Agatha Christie novels soon to join in:)

omg Emmie this is my very FAVOURITE Agatha mystery!!! Proud to say when I read it I noticed the ten minute thing for a fleeting second :)))) was still blown away by the ending though!!

emma this is such a fun and creative idea !!! i loved this

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!🙃

Emmie he never actually lied!! He left hints but we never suspected him🥲 once he said I turned back to complete something uncompleted. The reading of text makes it more guessable

@kahkah1986

2 жыл бұрын

maybe the audiobook is more heavily edited?

@loreleimonn3220

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the vagueness of the beginning of the story is why I thought it was him the whole time and felt so validated by the ending. The beginning is so well written

Wow!!! I've been a long time Christie fan, but I've never actually attempted to solve the mysteries like you did here. I'm so stealing this idea from you for my next mystery read 😇 For your next attempt, why not try the mysterious affair at styles, or the body in the library? 😁

ahhh you should so do another video like this emmie, this was so fun to watch and try to solve with you.

Above all, really appreciate your video, I enjoyed it keenly. I indeed felt creepy when the whole lot revealed, since you had been with the murderer the whole time. Saw him as a friend, a dear partner, followed his line of narration undoubtedly, clung to it as the absolute truth, and then boom, he got you shockingly. I read those last lines on a late, barren, cold night, the feeling that your dear friend stabbed you (in the plot when Sheppsrd did to Ackroyd, and especially in the way a narrator slyly tricked his reader) really brought my goosebumps.

this video idea is honestly your best one yet emma!!!

@maanya__742

2 жыл бұрын

yess!

@maeiscompletelyfine

2 жыл бұрын

I AGREE!!!

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you💙💙

I had to study this book for my English degree. Though it may not seem like it but there were very subtle clues about the ending of the book. Perhaps if you ever re-read this, you will find out. Anyway loved your video ❤️. If you want to make another one on Christie, I would suggest doing one on Then There Were None (not sure if you have already read it). To date, it still remains one of my top Christie books. You can also check out the Tommy and Tuppence series by Christie (especially M or N). I think you would like it. See you soon ❤️

@pratikshatiwari7011

Жыл бұрын

You must be eng hon student then

I watched this video and then listened to the audiobook. Listening to it while knowing who did it was very enlightening. I think this is one of those that you have to do a second listen to be able to “see” the real clues. Thanks for the video and I hope you do more of these!

I just finished this book last night! Perfect timing. What an awesome video idea

Funnily enough, I was able to figure out who the murderer was about halfway through the book, maybe closer to 3/4s. There are definitely clues in there. I love this book for that reason. And if anyone thinks I'm just boasting, I'm not, this is the only one I figured out out of the like 10 that I've read so far..

@bryanmanuelbaes7871

Жыл бұрын

One day I WILL solve one his Christie's novels. If I can do it with Holmes' Hound of the Baskervilles then I can do it with Poirot

You really jumped into the deep end of the pool, didn't you? Although it really drew me in because I feel like this is one of those "it was his sled" books where the twist is so well known that most people woulld know it going in. It is a real treat to see someone who didn't know the twist read it for the first time! Kind of like those reaction videos where people film their friends watching Star Wars ep IV for the first time without knowing who Darth Vader is. I think the first Agatha Christie novel I read where I managed to "solve" the mystery before the reveal was "Cat Among the Pigeons", if you haven't read that before and want to do this again at a somewhat easier difficulty level. :) I look forward to seeing more!

This is my first comment on your channel...I absolutely absolutely love all of your videos and the vibes that your channel radiates are so damn tempting!!🤩 This particular video...I found it so so intriguing and entertaining that I shared it with 10 other Agatha Christie enthusiasts!!😍😍

I'd love to see you try this with The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton! It's long but the audiobook is good and I feel like mapping out the mystery clues would be so cool

@hfollman98

2 жыл бұрын

I tried to get into this one. Is it a good mystery?

@marymik7372

2 жыл бұрын

@@hfollman98 I thought so! It gave me strong Sherlock Holmes/ Conan Doyle vibes so I think if you like those reveals, you'd like this one

This book was a phase for me!! I couldn't get out of it...I had to reread🌌

I think this is one of the best ideas for a video i have seen in a looong time! loved it!

OMG UR VIDEO SAVED ME SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH TIME LIKE A LOOOOOT OF TIME we had a homework to make a detective board of any book and I just followed you and made the board not only that i know the story now as well THANK U SOO MUCH

Okey, I will watch for the intro, stop, and immediately grab this book at store. Will come back soon to this video Emma 🕵🏻‍♂️

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

Haha good luck fellow detective👀 let me know once you’ve finished it!!

I listened to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in anticipation of this video. This was so fun! I shared a lot of your reactions, especially the "row of stars" not translating well to audiobook...🙄

@nejchorvat6984

2 жыл бұрын

The row of stars is not in the book at all... It's a metaphore by Dr. Sheppard. He deliberately tried to cover up those 10 minutes that were missing.

@lexihaley2887

2 жыл бұрын

Right: the book reads: The letter had been brought in at twenty minutes to nine. It was just on ten minutes to nine when I left him, the letter still unread. I hesitated with my hand on the door handle, looking back and wondering if there was anything I had left undone. I could think of nothing. With a shake of the head I passed out and closed the door behind me.

im planning to write a murder mystery over the summer so these videos are probably gonna be very helpful for me to learn how they work and how their clues work! thank you :D

Christie sure loved making it the narrator and/or another person you really loved and didn't want it to be! This was great to watch, how fun!

Amazing idea for a video, please make this into a series

@maeiscompletelyfine

2 жыл бұрын

YES PLS!!!!!!!!!!

@emmiereads

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you liked it yesss I’d love to do more!!