The Washington Post let me down again. I read Marie Benedict's The Mystery of Mrs. Christie based on a review of theirs. Pretty disappointing. I give it two out of four stars. The concept gives a writer so much to work with: Agatha Christie's 11-day disappearance in 1926. Benedict doesn't really have down how the Brits spoke back then, the novel could have lost at least 50 pages, and the ending was weaker than a Tana French denouement. On the plus side, now I want to rewatch the great Dr. Who episode about it, "The Unicorn and the Wasp".
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