After the Funeral - Agatha Christie Reviews

In "After the Funeral" we are presented with a novel which not only manipulates our preceptions and forces us to question that which we took for granted, but which may also be viewed as representative of the growing differences between the era that this book is set in and those of Christie's earlier works. More than thirty years has ...  Read the complete review

'After the Funeral' is a book by Agatha Christie, about an upper class English family - the Abernethies - who become suspects in a murder. Hercule Poirot is the detective who is brought in to investigate the murder of Cora Lansquenet, a widow who is killed savagely with a hatchet. Her murder comes days after the funeral of her oldest brother, ...  Read the complete review

After the Funeral is a Hercule Poirot mystery and being my favourite detective I perhaps had too high hopes of this book. That’s not to say that its terrible, just not as good as I expected. The story circles around the Abernethie family. The funeral described in the title is that of wealthy Richard Abernethie. During the reading of ...  Read the complete review

This was a review I posted here a few years ago. Deciding it needed an update, I checked to see what amendments needed to be made and was horrified to find it was only three paragraphs long. And some of my other reviews weren't exactly stellar either! Anyway, on with the (extended) review. After the Funeral was published in ...  Read the complete review