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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Why Didn't They Ask Evans
Author: Agatha Christie
It started when a false step from a misty footpath sent a musterious stranger plummeting to his death. How was Bobby Jones to know that witnessing they dying man's last words-"Why didn't they ask Evans?"-would send him on a death-defying chase? Bobby and his unlikely partner in detection, Lady Francis Derwent, end up in pursuit of a hauntingly...  more »
ISBN: 278668
Publication Date: 5/1984
Pages: 230
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Publisher: Berkley Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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PhoenixFalls avatar reviewed Why Didn't They Ask Evans? on + 185 more book reviews
I very much enjoyed this Christie novel the first time through, but on rereading in publication order, it wore a little thin. Bobby Jones & Frances Derwent are too much like pale imitations of Tommy & Tuppence in The Secret Adversary and Bundle Brent & Bill Eversleigh in The Seven Dials Mystery. The solution to the titular question is quite clever -- but it was so clever that I remembered it, further dampening my enjoyment in rereading. There also wasn't the same insight into character that Christie shows in other novels, particularly Poirot and Miss Marple novels. So all in all enjoyable, but not one of her greatest.
reviewed Why Didn't They Ask Evans? on + 190 more book reviews
This book is also know as The Boomerang Clue......
reviewed Why Didn't They Ask Evans? on + 17 more book reviews
Actually called the Boomerang Clue, but its the same book.
reviewed Why Didn't They Ask Evans? on + 142 more book reviews
Definitely one of Christie's best.
Also published as "The Boomerang Clue."


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