And my end of movie follow-up....
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Well, that was interesting. 
Ok, so no spoilers. The very last scene... was.... 'delicious'.
Here is what I took from this movie, and without question the main reason I loved it. WAY back...
in the 70's, I got into Agatha Christie. For the next decade or so I read every Poirot whodunit she wrote, twice, or even three times... (never got into Marple)... it was so much fun. AFTER I had read them all I was still addicted but I was out of Hercule novels.... so I began a search, a search I continue to this day. I have never found another whodunit author I enjoyed anywhere near as much as Agatha....... found a good whodunit novel here and there but no author that was able to hold my interest the way Agatha did. And SOOO...
Imagine my surprise to find that which I got from Agatha not in a novel... but a movie, and finding it after nearly 40 years of searching . Knives Out.
Ok... building on that topic. Agatha did not write the best whodunit I ever read, (personal preference). So here's where you come in... if any of you recognize the whodunit I'm about to describe PLEASE tell me who the author is and what the title is... I have long forgotten.
In the late 70's a house near where I live sat long deserted. The family who had lived there long gone from this area. The house was in shambles, falling down, and about to be cleaned up by my neighbor who had purchased the land. One day I visited the house and rummaged thru it's contents... lot of old stuff, interesting stuff... but MOSTLY... a collection of books, many 1st editions. Some published in the 1800's. That's how I came across this 'mystery' whodunit.
The Whodunit itself - never was so 'fooled' in all my years of reading whodunit's as I was with this one.... having read 100's of whodunits. But that's not the intriguing aspect of this.... in this whodunit the author, unequivocally, TOLD the reader who the murderer was. And yet, by the end of the novel, (or rather during the final few pages), I was still trying to make my best detective guess as to the killer. That's right... I was TOLD who the murderer was.. in the first paragraph of the whodunit, and yet the author had cleverly beguiled me.
So if that sounds familiar to any of you, (scant chance, it was a very old book), I'm offering a reward. - JamesJM
Ok, so no spoilers. The very last scene... was.... 'delicious'.Here is what I took from this movie, and without question the main reason I loved it. WAY back...
in the 70's, I got into Agatha Christie. For the next decade or so I read every Poirot whodunit she wrote, twice, or even three times... (never got into Marple)... it was so much fun. AFTER I had read them all I was still addicted but I was out of Hercule novels.... so I began a search, a search I continue to this day. I have never found another whodunit author I enjoyed anywhere near as much as Agatha....... found a good whodunit novel here and there but no author that was able to hold my interest the way Agatha did. And SOOO...
Imagine my surprise to find that which I got from Agatha not in a novel... but a movie, and finding it after nearly 40 years of searching . Knives Out.
Ok... building on that topic. Agatha did not write the best whodunit I ever read, (personal preference). So here's where you come in... if any of you recognize the whodunit I'm about to describe PLEASE tell me who the author is and what the title is... I have long forgotten.
In the late 70's a house near where I live sat long deserted. The family who had lived there long gone from this area. The house was in shambles, falling down, and about to be cleaned up by my neighbor who had purchased the land. One day I visited the house and rummaged thru it's contents... lot of old stuff, interesting stuff... but MOSTLY... a collection of books, many 1st editions. Some published in the 1800's. That's how I came across this 'mystery' whodunit.
The Whodunit itself - never was so 'fooled' in all my years of reading whodunit's as I was with this one.... having read 100's of whodunits. But that's not the intriguing aspect of this.... in this whodunit the author, unequivocally, TOLD the reader who the murderer was. And yet, by the end of the novel, (or rather during the final few pages), I was still trying to make my best detective guess as to the killer. That's right... I was TOLD who the murderer was.. in the first paragraph of the whodunit, and yet the author had cleverly beguiled me.
So if that sounds familiar to any of you, (scant chance, it was a very old book), I'm offering a reward.
- JamesJM
