{"id":2093,"date":"2020-12-24T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2020-12-24T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:00:23","slug":"review-the-pale-horse-by-agatha-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-pale-horse-by-agatha-christie\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Pale Horse, by Agatha Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In many murder mysteries, the question of &#8216;who did it&#8217; is less important than &#8216;how they did it&#8217; &#8211; and that is certainly the case with this book. I came to read it because I knew <strong><em>how<\/em><\/strong> it was done; I had read about that while doing research for my own next book. But I had no idea <strong><em>who<\/em><\/strong> did it. Now I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not one of Christie&#8217;s best books. Written when she was 70 years old, and features as its central character a forgettable figure, vaguely described as a historian of sorts, who stumbles through the story, not understanding things that the average reader would spot fairly quickly. He is no Hercule Poirot, who sees everything and understands everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in books like this one, the mystery is everything, and two mysteries here &#8212; who did it, and how &#8212; are interesting enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many murder mysteries, the question of &#8216;who did it&#8217; is less important than &#8216;how they did it&#8217; &#8211; and that is certainly the case with this book. I came to read it because I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}