There are also various cousins and relations of Lucy Angkatell, including Henrietta, a talented sculptor and John Christow’s latest paramour Edward, who’s been in love with Henrietta forever despite her repeated rejections of marriage, and Midge, a poor relation who’s been carrying a torch for Edward. Something is off about the whole thing that, on the surface, looks like a simple crime of passion.īefore the tragic pool scene takes place, we spend time getting to know the other guests at The Hollow, which include John Christow, a respected and charismatic Harley Street doctor, and his meek wife Gerda, who is blindly devoted to her husband and worships the ground he walks on.
However, during the murder investigation that follows, Poirot keeps coming back to that first gut impression of something artificial and staged. Several other people hover around in pretend shock… or so Poirot thinks, until it dawns on him that the red paint is real blood and the man in front of him is really dying. Upon arriving, he’s very much irritated by the cheap melodramatic scene clearly staged for his benefit: a man lying at the edge of the pool, dripping red paint into the water, while a woman stands over him with a gun in her hand.
Hercule Poirot is invited by the eccentric Lady Angkatell to spend a weekend at her country estate, The Hollow. The Hollow may not be one of Christie’s most ingenious and inventive mysteries, but it stands out as one of her more unusual crime novels, where the crime itself is a distant second to the character study.
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