Loved it! Don’t want to spoil it for anyone!

I enjoyed this and will read the next. I’m happy to have more stories and be entertained. If your motive is entertainment and not judgement give this a try!

The plotting is enjoyable enough, for a mystery, although perhaps a bit too Byzantine. The dialogue and characterization so, however, struck me as amateurish and trying too hard. The use of the first person seemed to me ill-advised, particularly as the narrator is ridiculously neurotic and repetitive. I missed the ease of Christie's style.

If you're hoping for an interesting new mystery involving Hercule Poirot, you'll be extremely disappointed. This novel should not be associated with Agatha Christie or her famous Belgian detective. It works for falling asleep though, bores you to death! Not worth buying.

I really should NEVER read a Hercule Poirot novel no matter how beautifully it's written, as this one is. I'm way too impatient to yawn my way through countless repeats of the same information and dealing time after time with the same characters as interesting as they might be, in every possible configuration. But that's Poirot. Nice to visit but I wouldn't like to stay very long. A lovely piece of work. But not for me.

I bought this thinking that it was a Poirot novel that must have missed. It was a great story but something in the writing of Poirot's companion kept throwing me off as different. I know it was not Hastings but it was a little odd. When I got to the end of the novel and the "about the author" section I was surprised to see that it was by someone else, which explained the slight style difference. I'm not sure that I would have bought this book had I known it wasn't written by Agatha Christie but I did enjoy it.

I thought this book would never end. To try and fill Agatha Christie's shoes is very hard, and this author has not done her even the slightest justice.....I can't even say the attempt was admirable.

An interesting attempt to mimic an Agatha Christie mystery. However, the real Poirot would never have led us ( the readers ) down endless paths as this author did. About half way through the story, I became weary of all the if's, and's and but's the author put us through. I am a huge Agatha Christie fan. I probably expected too much from this author.

I fail to understand how this author could even think of attempting to fill in the shoes of a genius. What a miserable piece of work - first time I have thrown away a book half way through. Cufflinks in the mouth!! WOW

I think this story was well written with the usual challenges to the little grey cells.

À never ending, boring novel. Nothing to do with a real Agatha Christie's thriller

I can't recall ever reading a worse novel. What a waste of time and money!

This was an enjoyable read in general. I did find it a little hard to believe the Scotland Yard detective, Mr. Catchpoole, could be so dense. The explanation of the solution seemed to go on forever. However, I would definitely recommend it.

Disappointing! Story has too many twists and turns to be worthy of Agatha Christie's literary legacy. Use of anachronistic phraseology offends. Word use such as 'weird' is completely unacceptable. Rather frequent use of Poirot's frenchisms throughout does nothing to enhance authenticity.

Quite a good effort to try to match Agatha Christie's storytelling prowess. But that's an impossibility. It deserves 5 stars just for the effort.