The Outside Killer from <After the Funeral>

After reading through the criminal novel from Agatha Christie, the After the Funeral, i really found this outside killer very ridiculous.

So many pages of telling how suspious of all the family members of Mr. Abernathie, it turned out that none of them is the actual killer.

Actually Mr. Abernathie is not even murdered, he was dead from an natural cause. His death has been used as an clause or even trick from Miss Gichrist to pretend to be Cora and eventually murdered Cora.

What i really don't agree with is that even nobody in this family recognised that she was not the real Aunt Cora? Even though the reason which is given by Agatha in the book is that nobody has even saw her in almost 20 years. But they surelly saw some pictures, i think? This book is written in about the time after the first world war and back at that time photos are normally accepted. Even in the book Agatha has written something about the photo. So i assume that at least one family memeber can recognise her not being the real Aunt Cora because they have saw the photos!!

And for Detective Poirot, it is also not the best case he has ever solved. The clue that given away is that he has realized Mr. Abernathie is not murdered instead he has died a natral way. That is ridicoulous i think, after all the time Agatha has analysed each family member has the motive to murder old Mr. Abernathie and each one has the ability. And at the end, he has not been murdered.

Besides that, the description about women is also a disturbing point. But they are always that from Agatha's novel. To me, Agatha has some anoying points about women that they are not as capable as men. Although the women she has written in the book is extrodinaylly brilliant. But this brilliant is in men's way. She has to be looked like a men, she has to be mindlly strong. I think Agatha cannot actually recognise the beauty and nature of women. She just thought that if a woman is like a man, then she is good. That is so sad.

But despite all this, it is still a good novel. It makes you want to read more and fast until you know who is the actual murder. Then it has achieved its goal as a crimial novel.