I thought this was a pretty good story but as a mystery I found it too hard to follow. There were just too many characters and most of them weren't unique enough or important enough to stand out - but you can't tell who's actually going to end up being important because anyone could be a suspect.

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In fact, one of the killers ended up being someone whose role I can't remember. I think he was an employee, but I have no idea what he did.

It makes it a bit difficult to get invested in trying to figure it out because you'd need to make notes. Or at least I would.

The last chapter was also not to my taste, ending with a fight scene rather than gathering everyone in the accusing parlour. It kind of makes the detectiving seem a bit irrelevant when the criminal ends up trying to kill the detective, since that alone is going to be enough to prove they did it. The pieces of the puzzle did seem to hold together pretty well though, even if the complexity made it hard to be sure and the ending rendered it somewhat irrelevant.

I might come back to this series once I finish the [a:Miss Marple|123715|Agatha Christie|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1321738793p2/123715.jpg] books. Or I might not.