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Originally Posted by pdurrant
IMO, The Big Four is her worst by far, while several of her works are on a par with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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I'm going to respectfully disagree with you about "The Big Four", Paul. Yes, it's a largely unsuccessful attempt to combine the two genres of "thriller" and "detective story" which Christie wrote, but I didn't dislike it as much as you did. It's certainly not a book I'd recommend, but I don't think it's the worst of her books. I'd reserve that for her last books, written when she was clearly failing in her abilities. Christie's last novel, "Postern of Fate", for example, is truly awful, with the same conversations repeated several times throughout the book, and the characters in one chapter seemingly forgetting what they had done in the previous chapter! It really shouldn't ever have been published.