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Originally Posted by HarryT
The interesting twist in the book is that they are themselves big fans of detective fiction, and in each case they try to adopt the methods and quirks of a famous (famous at the time, that is - most of them are now long-forgotten to most modern readers) fictional detective. Thus in the first story they adopt the methods of R. Auston Freeman's forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke; in a later one they try to solve the crime in the manner of G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, and so on. Amusingly, in the final story they adopt the methods of Christie's own Hercule Poirot, and poke fun at Poirot, and specifically at Christie's book of the previous year, "The Big Four"  . |
A book with a similar theme that I can recommend is The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley.