![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Several people are automatically suspect, others add their names to that list, the history of the dead person is locked into, a Hollywood movie star who just “Happens” to be staying at the next abode may be involved, and the local police even suspect Poirot. Poirot comes into play at about the same time and, initially irritated at the pandering quality of the tableaux displayed to him which he has fancied as some type of party game, he quickly surmises that the woman holding the gun over the body laid out next to and dripping blood in the pool, may indeed have actually killed the man at her feet.Two of the other houseguests are arriving on the scene as well as the rather bemusing lady of the house. We all know there will be a murder, but the corpse doesn’t present itself until almost a third of the way in the story. Either way, this is a discernibly different type of storytelling for her. Originally the title included an s at the end of Hollow, which inclines me to think Dame Agatha had originally been talking about the cast of characters rather than the location. All that is except for the one who is dead. They seem empty of life, hollow shells that are giving a simulation of people doing the things they would normally be doing. It is also a description of what Poirot thinks about the people living there. The Hollow is the name of the estate where this murder mystery is set. The Hollow (1946) (Poirot # 26) by Agatha Christie. ![]()
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