Hercule Poirot investigates two family-based murders.

I got a big kick out of this. It did take a little while to get going, but as the story progressed I found myself eager to see how it would all turn out. The plot is semi-recycled from a couple of Dame Agatha's other books, but she's changed enough elements that it still works well even for the hardcore Christie reader. The clues are nicely dispersed, the pacing is good and, most importantly, all the characters are viable suspects. Even though I guessed the culprit early on, I wasn't sure until the very end.

Good stuff. I definitely recommend it to fans of Christie's work.

(Longer review available on my blog, Stella Matutina). ( )

Fairly standard Poirot - with an interesting plot, especially the motive for the murder, people have killed for less. ( )

This was not my favorite Hercule Poirot mystery, although it was slightly entertaining. I appreciated the little twist at the end. I feel it redeemed the book somewhat. I really felt the family members were a bunch of rotten jerks who married even bigger rotten jerks, and I really wished the uncle had left his money to charity, or had chucked it off a bridge.

I feel nothing for this book but a sort of lukewarm apathy. Meh. ( )

A good, standard Hercule Poirot mystery. These never fail to delight me as I struggle in vain to deduce the identity of the murderer, only to discover some devious twist that I would never have though of given all the time in the world. Curiously enough, it doesn't irritate me; it is always fun. ( )

After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18th May of the same year under Christie's original title. A 1963 UK paperback issued by Fontana Books changed the title to Murder at the Gallop to tie in with the film version. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
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