A classic that I honestly knew I'd enjoy. I don't read murder mysteries as often as I should since I tend to enjoy them so much. This was a great, well paced story with a wide cast of interesting characters. There wasn't really any character development, but that's to be expected. While entertaining, the story did have the same misses as many murder mysteries of the era do, which is drawing the correct conclusion from little data for entertainment value. This made it feel a tad ridiculous at times, I enjoyed it.