Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie is indeed sad. I felt sad for the characters, empathized with the emotional injustice of the situation, and was only moderately consoled by the potentially happy ending. I disliked the writing style, which was noticeably different than the other Agatha Christie's I'd read at the time, and found the mystery a bit unbelievable. It seemed the murder had gone to greater extents than necessary and those greater extents were the clinching clues. I also thought the murderer was ill-informed and thus the motive was kind of pathetic. Certainly not my favorite of Christie's mysteries.
Two Stars
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