Anna C. (eclecticlibrarian) reviewed on 4/23/2005 + 49 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I thought I had read this one before, but only elements of it were familiar to me. Most of it was not. Probably because it has been over ten years since I would have read it before. Midway through I was struck by how similar Elijah Baley is to Hercule Poirot. Like Poirot, Baley uses his "little grey cells" to comprehend the psychology of the murder and solve the mystery. However, Christie is able to do this in half the number of pages that Asimov takes. Of course, her Victorian sensibilities limit the amount of sex to a bare mention.

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