Talk:One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (novel)

Implausibility in the plot II

Although I am a huge Christie fan, having read every one of her mysteries in my twenties, I must agree with the commenter on the previous note to this effect. Instead of concocting this convoluted (by way of understatement), dangerous and not to mention evil plot to cover up his legitimate wife’s and his scheme, when first encountering Mabelle out of the blue in London, why didn’t Blunt simply tell her that his first wife, Mabelle’s actress friend of years ago, had passed away several years ago and he had since remarried only to have lost his second wife as well? There is no indication that the two women had been much more than casual friends in India and hadn’t kept in touch. So would should Mabelle question this or ask to see a death certificate? Who would ask such a thing or even think to? Blunt should have rendered his tale of woe and then given her the brush off: “Well, it was nice seeing you again.” The same is true for the Greek man, Why should he too be suspicious to investigate further? Blunt's only worry would be that by yet another fluke Mabelle and his first wife would have a similar chance encounter. (London is a large city, after all!) If that worried him, then have Greda leave the area for a spell, maybe a tour of another country. I must reluctantly agree that this is among Dame Agatha’s least plausible plots.HistoryBuff14 (talk) 00:16, 27 May 2020 (UTC)