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Good writing; but what's up with the TOC in the Kindle edition?
Agatha Christie writes sparkling prose and her plots are intricate and fun, so nothing to complain about there. The first three titles are short novels with chapters. The remaining titles are short stories. Nothing to complain about there either. However, in the Kindle edition, at the beginning of the novelette, The Murder on the Links, we find we are on page 291, and after that ALL the pages are page 291. Everything else in this book is on page 291. Even in the Table of Contents, it shows that every story after the first two are on page 291. Apart from just plain logic telling you that not every page can be page 291, if you open the menu to look at "About This Book" the menu states that the typical time to read it is 20 hours and 47 minutes. It surely is more than 291 pages, but I'm not sure that it's big enough to take 20 hours to read. I'm not sure, though, because I don't know how many pages are actually in this book! I decided to do a little sleuthing. I looked at the paperback version of this book. The paperback version purports to contain only two titles {the first two in this collection), and it states in the publisher's details that the book is 290 pages long, which is correct: that is the page on which the The Secret Adversary ends. So I think at some point the publisher decided to add the third novelette and the short stories, but forgot about the pagination. So who knows how long this book is or how long it would actually take to read? At the beginning of The Murder on the Links, my Kindle tells me that I am at 42%. So probably the book is about 700 pages long. I have not noticed any of the typos or formatting problems noted by another Kindle reader.
August 2020 · Kindle Store · verified purchase
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