This is not the first meeting of Hastings and Poirot. They met in Belgium but this book takes place in England while Hastings is invalided out and Poirot is being hosted as a refugee of the Great War. But then, their hostess dies. The doctor does not seem worried but others think it may have been murder. Especially her children who were taken aback when their mother married someone 20 years younger than herself. All seems to point to the new husband but Poirot is not convinced. Even when the chemist points directly to the man as someone who bought strychnine recently. But was it him?
The story is narrated by Hastings who sees everything but rarely understands any of it.
Three and a half stars
This book came out October 1920
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby
Opinions are my own
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