I thought it was one of the two children! But I suspected that it was the other child in the wheelchair. For me when I think about an Agatha Christie novel I always think of the most absurd unexpected scenario that everyone else would dismiss so this time it was the kids.
It's usually a mistake in an Agatha Christie novel to dismiss anyone as a suspect. :-) I really like this book. One part that stuck with me is what they said about the two sides of the family, that Aristide was dishonest but kind, and his wife's side are ruthless but law-abiding, but if you combine those two the wrong way you get someone with no respect for others OR the law, i.e. basically a sociopath. And from that perspective I think the murder makes sense.
Yeah, I found that detail in the family history really interesting! I guess I discounted the kids because in previous Christies I've read, the children were all kind of non-characters lol
I really thought it was Sophia for the ENTIRE book until the last couple of chapters (I put two and two together with the real solution just before it was revealed). I really really thought I cracked it with this book, but Christie fooled me yet again. I also saw bookslikewhoa's video after finishing it, so with the knowledge that the murder is almost never a "Mary Debenham-esque" young woman, I likely would have ruled Sophia out much earlier! This is definitely one of my favorites from Christie that I've read!
When I saw you'd picked Crooked House, I thought, "Oh, no. Of all the ones to pick..." (I do love Crooked House, but it's one of her darkest, and I know people who are offended she solved it in the way she did.)
Great video please make more! I don't have access to this book and I left curious about did Josephine hurt herself with the trap or how was it explained? 😁 (Sorry for my english I'm from Finland)
I've watched all the videos you've talked about as well, hahaha! And I also started reading them as a child - my first one was The Mystery of the Seven Dials. Crooked House is pretty good imo. I don't think I got it right when I read it either, and I can't remember any other book of hers in which there was a child culprit. I remember at least one older teen, but no one this young... I think there was a short story that included someone telling a story about a child that killed a friend on purpose, but I don't remember much else. In any case, she didn't use child killers often, so it's kinda easy to overlook this suspect. edited: Spent a long time trying to find out which story it was, and it was an actual novel. :) The character is no longer a child in the book, though, there's just this story about their past at some point.
