More than half way through the book and it feels like the character development in this one is lacking. The only characters I have a real read on are the dead woman and her husband. Everyone else is just kind of blah, which makes it hard to give a crap about who murdered her because she kinda sucks and her husband is just meh.

Twenty-some-odd Poirot books in and I feel like I'm late to the game because I just had an epiphany about how women who don't follow social norms within these books are often killed off because of their "delinquent" behavior, i.e. women are fridged for being sexual, confident, assertive, etc. I mean, sure infidelity or being manipulative isn't great and all, but why is it that the women are almost always the ones punished in these situations and not the men who exhibit the same behavior, Agatha?? I know it could be boiled down to the time in which she was writing, but dang is it frustrating.