Review by drc-6

The previous reviewer made some very fair points - essentially commenting on the fact that all the best Marple/Poirot books have been filmed ad infinitum. 'Death Comes as the End' ought to be filmed, because it is as tricky a Christie as ever she wrote. It supplies everything the previous reviewer wanted - No Miss Marple; no Hercule Poirot and it is a classic Agatha Christie whodunit - set in ancient Egypt. This, I believe was the only time Christie set any of her novels outside the 20th century. I believe her second husband Sir Max Mallowan (a well respected British archaeologist) used to take Christie on his Egyptian digs and (that) this ended up being the theme of the book. As I said at the outset, no Poirot/no Marple, but it as good a Christie novel as you are ever going to get.