quaad commented on Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, …
This one seemed more like a deconstruction of mystery novels than a simple mystery novel. Both the crime and Poirot's solution are elaborately performative. what i found most interesting was Christie's portrayal of male characters in relation to her female characters and her grab bag of gender archetypes in general.