Finished this in 24 hours. I just could not put this down. I am a big fan of Poirot and Miss Marple TV shows and always wanted to read Agatha Christie's mystery novels. It was amazing that this is a stand alone novel and it was still exciting and mysterious like Poirot and Miss Marple stories. I tried solving the mystery myself (too much into detective stories) and I sure was close on it except it was not the exact person I thought but I did solved it pretty close, hence I didn't give it 5 stars. Not at all a down point of the novel but because I predicted the ending too close.