The Witch Elm is twice that length, and I’m relieved to report that those added pages aren’t just filler. But an Agatha Christie novel might run 250 pages or so.
You have the murder victim, another skanger (although a rich one) whose passing we need not mourn you have the small pool of possible suspects you have the manor house with the walled-in garden where the body was discovered.
Here’s a things-go-bad story Thomas Hardy could have written in his prime, although the Hardy version would probably contain no lines such as ‘I looked like the lowlife in a zombie movie who isn’t going to make it past the first half-hour’ … So far, so Agatha Christie (who is even name-checked in passing).
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