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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Why Didn't They Ask Evans
Author: Agatha Christie
When Bobby Jones goes to retrieve his wayward golf ball at the bottom of a cliff, he little expects that he will find a dying man there. With his last breath the man gasps, “Why didn’t they ask Evans?” Looking for a handkerchief in the man’s pocket Bobby pulls out a photograph of an attractive young woman. — Intrigued by t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780425098554
ISBN-10: 0425098559
Publication Date: 9/15/1986
Pages: 240
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Book Type: Mass Market 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.
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Definitely one of Christie's best.
Also published as "The Boomerang Clue."


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