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Agatha Christie: an unlikely obituary. (Latin America: Private Eyes & Time Travelers)
From: The Literary Review
Date: 19940922
Author:Ibarguengoitia, Jorge; Soicher, Fernanda
A humorist and detective fiction writer shares his sense of perplexity with Agatha Christie novels and Poirot's ability to explain every mystery at the end of Christie's fictions. Three personal experiences are narrated involving such things as the loss of items of small value. The inability to explain the disappearance of a nutcracker or the mysterious appearance of a mismatched fork make it difficult to comprehend the absolute logic and explicability of Christie's plots.
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