Crooked House is one of Agatha Christie‘s favourites of her books.

I’d agree. This is a good one.

An unreliable narrator. It kept me guessing.

Towards the end of the Second World War, Charles Hayward is in Cairo and falls in love with Sophia Leonides, a smart, successful Englishwoman who works for the Foreign Office. They put off getting engaged until the end of the war when they will be reunited in England.

Hayward returns home and reads a death notice in The Times: Sophia’s grandfather, the wealthy entrepreneur Aristide Leonides, has died, aged 85.

Due to the war, the whole family has been living with him in a sumptuous but ill-proportioned house called “Three Gables”, the crooked house of the title.

The autopsy reveals that Leonides was poisoned with his own eserine-based eye medicine via an insulin injection.

Sophia tells Charles that she can’t marry him until the matter is cleared up. …

I haven’t seen the 2017 movie adaptation.

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