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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? ([Ulverscroft large print series. mystery]) [Large Print] (Hardcover)

by Agatha Christie (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Hardcover: 394 pages
  • Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd; Large Print edition edition (Jul 1974)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0854562702
  • ISBN-13: 978-0854562701
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,496,815 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis

A crime novel in which a golfer, while looking for a lost ball on the cliffs, comes across the body of a dying man whose final words spur on the golfer and his friend to solve the mystery.


About the Author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An underrated gem, 24 Jun 2007
By Ms. MacNeill (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Paperback)
A surprising success! "Why Didn't They Ask Evans" is a real romper of a detective story, packed full of amateur sleuths, red herrings, and clever hints. Particularly well written is the developing relationship between the two protagonists, Frankie and Bobbie. Christie, for all her failings, always manages to write romances charmingly and she does not disappoint here: I found myself rooting for the pair of them to get together the whole way through.

All things considered, this is classic Christie stuff, and probably deserves to be more widely-read than I suspect it is. Even leaving aside the romance, the mystery is intriguing and original, and I was honestly kept guessing until the very end. Furthermore, unlike some of her novels, little clues are dropped here and there regarding the villain's inconsistency in his story, so that the reader can do some sleuthing along with Frankie and Bobbie. The identity of Evans, as the other reader points out, isn't really something that can be deducted, which is slightly disappointing - however, the book isn't really *about* discovering Evans' identity. It is someone who the reader meets along the way, so keep an open mind if you want to have a guess!

The story does take a turn for the bizarre three-quarters of the way through: the heroes are kidnapped and the story becomes slightly more implausible from that point on. This criticism is minor, however; really, the book is Christie at her absolute finest. It is witty, clever, and the plot twists and turns throughout. Fully recommended.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Light-hearted Christie., 7 April 2006
By S. Hapgood "www.sjhstrangetales.com" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Paperback)
This is one of Dame Agatha's more light-hearted romps. No Poirot, no Jane Marple, or Inspector Japp, or even Tommy and Tuppence. Instead a very likeable pair of Bright Young Things (and I don't normally like them in the early Christie works!), called Lady Frances (Frankie to her friends) Derwent, and Bobby Jones. Bobby is the sort of handsome, amiable, but not exactly intellectual young man that the author clearly enjoyed writing about, and Frankie is another of the strong, spirited and resourceful young women who are often a staple of the classic Christie novel. The title "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?" (and if you don't know the story, I guarantee you'll never guess who Evans turns out to be!), are the suitably cryptic words of a dying man who has fallen off a cliff. Add to the mix a spooky sanatorium, a gang of international drug-dealers (Christie-style), a Terry-Thomas style bounder, and plenty of madcap adventures, and you have a very fast-paced enjoyable read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of Christie's best, 19 Aug 2000
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This review is from: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (The Christie Collection) (Paperback)
Christie wrote many books and so, as you read through them, you notice that understanably some are masterpieces (And Then There Were None, Orient Express etc.) and some were obviously hard work to write. This is one of Christie's best, and thankfully a breath of fresh air away from a certain correct little Belgian detective...

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is a fantastic yarn just wandering around 1930s upper class England, full of buffoons and jolly ripping fellows! Frankie and Bobby are the best ever heroes I've come across in an Agatha Christie - they are shamelessly melodramatic and self confident. Frankie loves all of her wonderful plans and schemes and fancies herself and Bobby as being rather wonderful amateur sleuths! And Bobby's hasn't fallen for Moira at all! No...

You've got to read Evans to appreciate the wonders of Bobby and Frankie's adventure, trotting from Wales to London to Hampshire and back to Oxford Street! And all in order to find out about that "blighter fell off a cliff. Tragic really."

Love it! Prove me wrong! It's a hell of a lot of jolly good, clean fun!

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