A very enjoyable book. Agatha's books are often described as 'cosy,' which I would agree with. The familiar cast of characters and the enclosed summery location makes it the perfect book to read in the garden, or perhaps locked away on the eight floor of student accommodation.
The isolation of the hotel retreat heightens the drama, which in turn makes reader-involement more interesting. Similarly to how the televisual or film-based adaptions have dropped subtle visual clues to the solution of the mystery, the book drops a smattering of hints and red herrings in the text.
The quite dated language is often unintentionally humorous, though it adds a certain nostalgic glow to the setting.
In-fact I enjoyed the book so much I went on to immediately read 'The Sittaford mystery' which [SPOILERS] used a similar murderous method; in which the murder establishes themselves as the discoverer of the body and using geographical time restraints as an alibi excusing them from suspicion.
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