Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

by Agatha Christie

When a man plunges down a cliff, two adventurous young friends decide to find his killer...

While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says, `Why didn't they ask Evans?'

Haunted by these words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger...

• ISBN10: 0312981597
• ISBN13: 9780312981594
• Publish Date: 18 February 2002 (first published 1 May 1971)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 8 February 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: St. Martin's Press
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 276
• Language: English

Reviews

[Aidan Brack (Mysteries Ahoy)]

The weakness of the whodunnit aspect of the story is not necessarily a problem in itself – after all, Christie wrote several perfectly serviceable thriller-type tales that didn’t really rely on trying to make the reader guess the guilty party’s identity. The problem here is that this is that the narrative is structured to make that the focus, even though the questions of why the victim was killed and the meaning of those strange last words are far more interesting.

Read my full review at Mysteries Ahoy!

[celinenyx]

A nice adventurous mystery, featuring a plucky young aristocrat and her friend, a Vicar's son. Christie's books are always an easy read, and you can rest assured that everything will be revealed by the end.