The Hollow

Pretty fun reading this one again. This one concentrated a lot more on the politics and relationship dynamics between the characters, but that's fine. I was definitely also slightly annoyed by everyone's fixation on the doctor at the center of the mystery here, Dr John Cristow. He didn't really feel like all that, but for some reason he had not one but three women trailing after him, at least two of which were intelligent and certainly out of his league.

Anyway, it made for an entertaining read but I find that I enjoy Christie's works where the mystery is more of a structured puzzle, aka And Then There Were None or Five Little Pigs. This one was definitely not within that category, but it was OK.

I did also kind of enjoy how there was a bit more focus on the romantic development of two characters which made for a pretty satisfactory ending.

Overall, decent fun and a serviceable mystery. Not one I'd recommend as a starting point to Christie, for sure, but definitely a good one for when you just need a bit of a Christie fix.