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Just finished "Sad Cypress" by Agatha Christie. This was her 35th book, originally published in 1940. Unusually for me for Christie, I'm pretty sure I hadn't read this one before, so I was coming at it afresh.
The book opens with a young woman in court, charged with the murder by poisoning of another young woman. The first section of the book consists of the story, in "flashback", of the events that led to her being in court, the middle section of the book is Poirot's investigations into the affair, and then the final section of the book covers the actual trial that we started the book with.
Although this is a Poirot novel, it's not at all like the usual Poirot novels. Poirot is really only a minor character in the book, with several other characters much more prominent in the story.
An excellent detective story, which I really enjoyed very much indeed. This now goes close to the top of my favourite Christie novels.
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