We, the reader, can’t but help get ahead of ourselves and the facts, until we find ourselves fooled and one-upped by a master who has outmaneuvered and out gamed us every step of the way. But nevertheless, we are slaves to her game. We are armed only with what Christie gives us and oftentimes the clues are maddeningly obtuse and misleading. While Poirot or Marple often guide us through the clues, it is our own hungry desire to solve the case that leads us down a path of discovery and investigative deduction. The joy of an Agatha Christie novel is that, in many, you are the detective. Now, two decades later, I have discovered a treasure trove that has awakened a passion for the murder mystery genre I never knew I had. Consequently, while I read one or two of her books early on in school, I had reduced the experience to an assignment and nothing more. Martin’s masterworks, that I was spending my summer reading Miss Marple stories. I would have been embarrassed to tell my friends who were ripping through the pages of George R.R. The name Agatha Christie equated stuffy old books from the past that were useful for school curriculum or middle aged book clubs. I grew up consuming Tolkien, Rowling and King. Christie has never been an obsession for me. The one that left the greatest impression on me was And Then There Were None. In preparing for my role in Murder on the Orient Express the new Kenneth Branagh film out November 10th, I decided to dust off my Christie collection and revisit some of her greats. And thus begins one of the great murder mysteries of all time'¦ a tale of ten guests, who like the famous poem 'œTen Little Indians,' find themselves disappearing one by one in the middle of nowhere. Owen.' After a lovely dinner, the guests are forced to listen to a recording accusing each and every single one of them of murder. Unbeknownst to them, they have all been invited there by an absentee host who goes by the name 'œMr. Ten strangers find themselves being invited to a remote island off the British Coast for a weekend retreat.
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