An early-middle career (late 1930s) Hercule Poirot mystery that takes place on a boat, a train, some hotels and Petra and does some amazing self-reference to earlier works in the Poirot oeuvre in some satisfying ways. We meet the Boynton’s, an American family presided over by a kind of domineering matriarch dowager, with a handful of wilting daughters, an effete and useless son, and a daughter-in-law who seems caught in but not cowed by the older lady. We also meet two psychologists who come to […]