This is Agatha Christie's début novel set during WWI where we are introduced to the eccentric yet charming and witty Hercule Poirot.

As it was published in 1920 (though she started writing it in 1916), the writing is of its time. It is therefore important to remember this when reading Agatha Christie's books as they often contain racial slur (and this one is no exception). But, the language used would have been common and unsurprising at the time the book was written and published.

Christie provides us in this book, and this became her style, a lot of possible suspects, red herrings, likeable and not-so-likeable characters, great (sub)plots and of course Poirot's final gathering of the suspects to reveal the murderer and how they committed their crime, which became his signature in subsequent mysteries.

Although I watched the TV version last year and remembered who had committed the crime, there was a lot I had forgotten, especially how they had committed it or their motive. I really enjoyed this read.