A review by tobyyy
The Monogram Murders by Agatha Christie, Sophie Hannah

1.0

DNF. I just couldn’t. Catchpool was literally the worst secondary character to have and also the worst to have narrate the story. He was inept and a coward... someone who left three dead bodies overnight, without examining the crime scene, because he was too scared and squeamish to inspect them. WTF??! How did you get your job, then, sir?? And he keeps shying away from Poirot giving him information/details about the three almost-identical murders, because he is, again, too squeamish. It’s not even as though the murders were particularly grisly. God. SO ANNOYING.

The rest of what I read was okay, but it also just felt off. Well into Uncanny Valley, where it’s extremely similar to how Christie wrote but just not quite there.

Ugh. I’d probably have persevered but for Catchpool. I just can’t handle such an urealistic, unredeemable, and downright ANNOYING narrator.