7/3/2023 0 Comments Poirot dentist![]() There’s plenty of other evidence but it’s either tantalising ambiguous or downright misleading without a motive. The case cannot be solved unless the motive can be uncovered. This is a detective story in which motive is of absolutely critical importance. The question of motive worries Japp a lot. It looks like suicide but Chief Inspector Japp is not at all satisfied. As it happens, it’s Poirot’s own dentist who is murdered. ![]() She leads the reader by the nose but if it’s any consolation Poirot very nearly falls into the same trap that Christie has laid for the reader. Regarded purely as a detective story it is superb, a classic example of Christie’s ability to lay false scents. ![]() It was published in 1940 but internal evidence suggests it may have been written just before the outbreak of war. The Second World War is never explicitly mentioned in Agatha Christie’s One, Two, Buckle My Shoe but it casts a long shadow over the book making it a rather interesting Hercule Poirot mystery. ![]()
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