Christie wrote some first rate plays in her career as well as novels; this is probably the best known. The character of the defending barrister isn’t as impressive on the page as I remember it from the film version; I think Billy Wilder and Charles Laughton helped beef that up. But the characters of Leonard Vole and his wife come across very vividly. There is some clever courtroom stuff but all murder mysteries need a decent twist to justify their existence and this one has one with the wife – no one would believe her testimony supporting her husband so she concocts it to lie then be deliberately found out! Wonderful.
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