Crooked House

This book is truly "crooked" with "crooked" characters and apparently have "crooked" motives to kill Aristide Leonides. The starting part of the book till the last four five chapters, in my view, were actually boring as the plot progress was a bit slow. The characters were interesting and the narration was okay, so that's what made me read the entire book. But the climax...... Oh my goodness!!! Again, somebody is made the murderer but the real murderer is beyond our wits. Interesting book.

What can I say about this book? Honestly I don't know! Well you'll be introduced into the world of the Leonides family through the eyes of Charles Hayward, the fiancé of Sophia Leonides. After the war Hayward had returned to England in hope to finally marry his true love, Sophia. However, to his dismay she says she cannot marry him until the murder of her 88 year old flamboyant Greek grandfather Aristide Leonides is solved. Charles now works alongside his father (who is usually referred in the book as the "Old Man" by the way) and Chief Inspector Taverner to try and figure out the intriguing case. To Charles' surprise he finds out that Sophia's family is incredibly puzzling. Well first of all Charles didn't even know that Sophia was the granddaughter of one of the biggest business tycoons known. And the fact that her whole 3 generation family loves in that Crooked House that the late Arsitide Leonides built himself. He also learns of the of the marriage between Aristide and Brenda who is fifty years YOUNGER than him. But did she really do it. There's a crooked house with a crooked family, filled with crooked motives intending for the death of a crooked man.

Story begins where a man proposes a girl, girl can't marry right now, because her grandfather just died. But she had a suspect that her grandfather were murdered, and murderer is inside her CROOKED HOUSE.. Will the murder will be caught? What may be motive? Read this book, to find out. Filled with twist and turns you would not have imagined ☺