The exposition is skilfully done, with the evidence being presented calmly over a period of some months and with each piece of the puzzle adding to the possible solutions to the death of a dentist but shedding little light on the inner workings of Poirot’s mind. I’m sure this is an Agatha Christie book that many of her readers will thoroughly enjoy. It has a lot of strengths but when it was over, I felt slightly distant from the outcome. I have mixed feelings about ‘One, Two, Buckle My Shoe’. Now – in the words of the rhyme – can Poirot pick up the sticks and lay them straight?
But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointments?Ī shoe buckle holds the key to the mystery. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A dentist lies murdered at his Queen Charlotte Street practice…
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