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Finally, an Agatha Christie short story that really hits the mark. Accident is delightfully sinister, with tension that creeps along at just the right pace before snapping into a genuinely surprising ending (at least it caught me off guard). It was especially refreshing after a run of recent Christie stories that, for me, never quite delivered the thrills or narrative spark she’s famous for.
The setup is classic Christie with a sharp twist. Inspector Evans is convinced that a woman he recognizes from an earlier case (where she was acquitted of murdering her husband with arsenic) is about to do it all over again with her new spouse. From there, Christie divides the story neatly in two: first, Evans lays out the backstory to a friend (and to us), and then the tale shifts into a tense game of cat and mouse. What follows is a clever duel of wits, with Evans and the woman circling each other, trading psychological feints and quiet manipulations. It’s smart, suspenseful, and thoroughly entertaining. Exactly the kind of Christie I’ve been missing.
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