![]() ![]() Anyone who has ever seen a Charlie Chan movie, or played Clue, or, indeed, read a detective story of the past half century will recognize this scenario, created by Agatha Christie, the so-called Queen of Crime, in the nineteen-twenties. Occasionally, he goes off and commits suicide, but as a rule he confesses (“God rot his soul in Hell! I’m glad I did it!”) and exits quietly, under police escort. In the end, he collects all the interested parties and delivers the “revelation”: he names the murderer and the motive and the method. He then begins questioning the people concerned, one by one. ![]() Who did this? And why, and how? Among those gathered, or soon summoned, is a detective, who says that no one should leave, please. They are assembled-maybe eight or nine people-in a small place: a snowbound train, a girls’ school, an English country house. Photograph by Lord Snowdon / Camera Press / Retna
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