In this play we have a marked shift in where the action takes place. Most of Christie's stories so far have followed a group of people, in varying states of being cut off from the world in which one (or more) of them are killed on stage. This time we start with an accusation and arrest, and the action is split between the courtroom and associated legal offices as the case unfolds. Central to the story are a seemingly innocent man and his apparently compulsively lying wife. There are so many shifts and changes, holes and mismatches that it's almost impossible to see where the blame is going to eventually lie. I don't tend to follow cleverly-delivered lies all that well anyway, but I was left still entirely unsure what the truth of the situation really was by the end. It's possible it may have been clearer in performance.
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