The final installment of Agatha Christie certainly didn't disappoint. This time a group is brought back together after several years to re-enact a long-since closed case at the (apparent) murderer's daughter's request, eager to clear her mother's name for her father's death. The group piece together a reconstruction from their memories of events as they unfolded at the time. Clearly nobody can actually be arrested or in any way officially accused now, and as it turns out the daughter, trying to clear her name as the child of a killer to mollify a skittish fiancé, ends up leaving her boyfriend anyway. In that sense it's probably the least satisfying ending of the lot, and as much as I like the idea of the premise, I doubt anyone would have such clear memories after the 20 years or so that are meant to have passed.
That all said, there's plenty of little twists and it's as easy and fun a read as the rest. It seems unlikely I'll ever get to see most of them performed (apart from the Mousetrap if I can work out timings to grab the tour somewhere along the way) but I feel like it's something I will be keeping an eye out for in the future.
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