![]() ![]() The David Suchet adaptation – while not my personal favourite – was the series’ first real foray into bleakness, and plays it well. ![]() It’s readable, and Japp puts in a strong performance. Is there anything terrible about this novel? No, not in the least. It was a useful gambit around which Christie could set a story, but often ended in nought.) (Perhaps needless to say, at the point, the eponymous nursery rhyme ain’t all that important. Poirot – who starts the book the victim of some very gleeful humour regarding his fear of dentists – is forced to face his own conscience, and the resulting dilemma is very well articulated. However, "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" is neither particularly eye-catching nor, for that matter, unpredictable… at least in the murder mystery elements. While a trip to the dentist with Agatha Christie is the only trip to the dentist one might actually enjoy, we are sad to report our enjoyment of this novel. It’s not always subtle, nor brilliant, but it’s an interesting step for Christie. ![]() A paperback edition in the US by Dell books in 1953 changed the title again to An Overdose of Death. The death of Poirot’s dentist reunites him with Inspector Japp for one final investigation together.Īn unusually bleak foray for Dame Agatha, coinciding with the onset of World War II, and investigating conflicts between conservatism and communism. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1940, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1941 under the title of The Patriotic Murders. ![]()
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