Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line.

But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so - until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood's Dr. Humbleby....

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Listening Length	6 hours and 57 minutes
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Publisher	HarperAudio
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Ruth Anderson

A creepy and compelling puzzle of a case!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2009

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In many ways Murder Is Easy reminded me of one of my favorite Christie novels, the Miss Marple outing The Moving Finger (Miss Marple Mysteries) . Both books draw back the curtain on seemingly tranquil, "ideal," English village life where everyone has secrets and no one is as they seem. Luke Fitzwilliam, newly retired from overseas police work, has a chance encounter with the eccentric Miss Fullerton on the London train. She tells him a fantastic tale of a murderer running loose in her village, knocking off people left and right - really too incredible to be believed. Or so Luke thinks, until he gets the news that his elderly informant was killed in a freak accident on the way to report her findings to Scotland Yard. He hatches a plan to pose as a friend's cousin writing a book on local customs, and goes to stay with his cousin Bridget, who turns out to be a stunning beauty engaged to the local bigwhig, Lord Easterfield. Not knowing who to trust, Luke joins forces with Bridget - but the murderer could be craftier than they think...

Most of my Agatha Christie reading has been confined to the Poirot or Marple novels, so it's always a treat to discover one of her standalones that delivers a good corker of a mystery. The pacing is excellent, and the way Christie introduces the cast of suspects, only to dismiss each in turn, is supberbly handled. Being something of a hopeless romantic (LOL), I loved the romantic, but atypical subplot between Bridget and Luke. They sparred and fought like crazy, but couldn't help falling for each other. :) And the last few chapters, where the murderer is revealed, are absolutely un-put-downable. With this book Christie created one of her creepiest, most disturbing villains, proving the revenge is a frightening dish best served cold. For all the pros, I did think the dialogue is a bit "clunky" and just does flow as well as some other Christie efforts I've read. But that's a small quibble, and certainly shouldn't detract one from reading what is a thoroughly enjoyable puzzler from Dame Agatha Christie.

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C. M Mills

Murder is Easy provides multiple murders in a cosy English village of evil and mayhem in this Christie mystery from 1939

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 18, 2010

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Murder is Easy. However, writing great murder mysteries is not! Dame Agatha Christie was at the top of her game writing this excellent novel in the scary year of 1939. Dame Agatha proves again in this one that she is the Queen of Crime!
The intricate plot,with a cast of fascinating characters, concerns a series of horrible murders in the village of
Wychwood set in rural England. Luke Fitzwilliam has returned to Britain following several years in Malaysia. He meet Mrs Lavinia Fullerton on a train heading for London, The old lady is traveling to Scotland Yard to report a series of murders in Wychwood. She is murdered by being pushed in front of a speeding motor car. Luke is intrigued and decides to investigate the case. He enters into a romance with Bridget Conway, Together the pair team up to solve the crime. Who is the murderer? The weird Lord Easterfield who has many skeletons in his closet? Jim Harvey the local mechanic who was in love with the murdered Amy ? Old Major Horton whose shrewish wife was poisoned?
Honoria Waynflete who was made at Eastefield for jilting her and taking up with Bridget? Whodunit??? Read and it will be revealed unto thee!
The story has many twists and turns before the person guilty of the murders is uncovered in a spectacular ending which will chill the bones and bruise the frayed nerves of the reader!
Agatha Christie wrote in a simple style easy to understand. She makes it easy to keep the many characters straight as the clues are followed leading to the satisfying ending. This reviewer recently saw "Murder is Easy" on Masterpiece Mystery. The BBC film was good but this book (which differs in significant ways from the film) is even better! Nothing profound here just pure sleuthing joy!

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Marty

Great WhoDunIt with Plenty of Twists

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2013

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When Luke Fitzwilliam retires from a police position in an Eastern location and returns to England, he's not expecting to instantly begin investigating a series of murders in a small village. And when an elderly lady relates her story to him en route to London to report the suspected murders to Scotland Yard, he thinks she has an overly-active imagination. Then he sees an article in the newspaper about her being killed by an automobile while crossing the street to Scotland Yard. A few days later he sees an obituary for the old woman's next predicted murder victim. The policeman in him can't resign and he soon finds himself in the aforementioned village under a false pretense, but with the intent to get to the bottom of the murders the old woman didn't get the chance to report. If all the victims on her list were actually murdered, he knows he's dealing with a psychopathic killer. As always, the question in Agatha Christie's novel is Who-Dun-It? The story has plenty of twists which will keep you guessing to the last minute and also an unexpected romance for Luke Fitzwilliam. Note: Inspector Battle arrives on the scene towards the end of the book but mostly in time to make an arrest. He's not really involved in solving the mystery so I wouldn't call this an Inspector Battle story.

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Richmonde

Standalone with no series characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 2, 2021

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I like Christie's standalone detectives. Here retired policeman Luke Fitzwilliam investigates murders with supernatural overtones; In The Pale Horse, historian Mark Easterbrook looks into a series of deaths apparently caused by voodoo. Murder is Easy was published in 1939, but feels as if set a few years earlier. At one point Luke light-heartedly suggests that society could well do without quite a lot of people. "But who would be the judge?" asks young Dr Thomas - but he doesn't get Luke arrested, or locked up. Who would have thought back then that anyone would take such an idea seriously?

There are many suggestions that something supernatural is going on - from the initial meetin in a train between Luke and Lavinia Pinkerton. "People have a LOOK, you know!" says dear old Lavinia. The local antique dealer "dabbles" in a Crowley-like cult. Luke poses as a folklorist and uncovers some genuine superstitions. Bridget, with her long black hair, is suggestively witch-like. She even goes out in a high wind without a hat - or a hair net! I am trying to imagine what you'd do with long hair in, say, 1935.

Anyway, I love this book. The 1982 film with Bill Bixby, Timothy West, Fiona Fullerton, Helen Hayes, Leigh Lawson, Shane Bryant and Olivia de Havilland is good, too. Only Freddy Jones strikes a wrong note.

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Intheamazone

Murder Is Easy...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 2, 2017

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Firstly, let me say that I am a die hard Agatha Christie fan. I love her books and re-read my favourites with regularity. I've made my way through the majority of her books and plays - both with Poirot and Marple and without. This book is a standalone in as a much as it concerns, not her famous detectives, but a retired policeman who stumbles upon a mystery and sets about getting to the bottom of it. This one simply did not grip for me. It begins well, the whole atmosphere of the 'golden age' is set and the premise is good. However, it became simply interminable about half way through. The idea is doubtless a good one as is the plotting to see this through but it just seemed to become endless reiteration.

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Damaskcat

Murder is Easy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 22, 2017

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This book is part of the Superintendent Battle series but unfortunately he doesn't appear until the very end of the book to make the arrest. The detective in this book is Luke Fitzwilliam who happens to come across an elderly lady on a train journey. She tells him an unbelievable story about a series of murders in the village in which she lives. She doesn't think the local police will believe that the deaths were murder so she is going to Scotland Yard to tell them about it.

Luke - a retired detective - doesn't quite believe her but there is something which niggles at him about the story and when he notices that the lady herself has been the victim of a hit and run accident he decided he must go and look into the story.

He masquerades as an author writing a book about local customs and starts to question the locals and gradually he starts to build up circumstantial evidence against one person. But has he got the right person? This is a well written story with a gradually escalating tension which ends in a race against time to prevent another murder. I enjoyed reading this story and found myself reading faster and faster as I got to the last few pages. In spite of its lack of the usual Christie detectives this book is still worth reading.

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Textilephd

Absolutely loved it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 12, 2021

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I saw quite a few reviews saying this wasn't good but I must heartily disagree
It's so nice to ease a Christie I haven't read It was quite Miss Marplesque Although she's not in it I felt you could hear the old Dears voice throughout the book is
It was a brilliant stand alone story and had all of the usual twists and turns with likeable characters in a perfect English Village setting , I would highly recommended It

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Plumdrop

The Queen of Crime

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 17, 2017

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I love Agatha Christie's books. They are so well written and plotted. Don't be put off reading the books if you've seen the television adaptations, particularly the Miss Marple cases, as often the only resemblance is in the title. In fact, this book was adapted for a Miss Marple television film and she's not even in it! (Why they do this is beyond me. Just adapt the books as they stand!) I enjoyed this story although I thought the plot was quite weak in one part (unusually for Agatha Christie). The attitudes of some of the characters are very dated but no less enjoyable for that - just suspend your twenty-first century viewpoint.

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