We know who the African chap is, but we can't get to the Europe man. There's a Johnnie in Japan, a fellow in Africa, and one in Europe. They're behind all the really big shopping for industries, and they move money around the world with nobody really noticing. "But they're very clever chappies, and just when we think we've got them they disappear." Or 'All the very, very big money decisions, all over the world are made by five people. That's who we're looking for" said M from Top Secret Department, Whitehall. To paraphrase in a scarcely exaggerated way," Lots of very important people behind all the really bad movements in the world which stir up no end of trouble for governments. The trouble is, I don't think that Agatha Christie's ideas on world politics bear scrutiny. Yes, I think you are probably quite right, Anubis, just as Swift's Gulliver's Travels was an allegory for society's foibles here in the real world.
We should have kept Micahelmass Day and May Day traditions. As one of my Sri Lankan friends said, we only have Christmas here, whereas her family gathers to celebrate all sorts of special days. Other countries are so much more sensible and traditional about preserving special days,and festivities. The Christmas traditions are lovely, and make me feel nostalgic for a past that can never be recovered.I wish Britain had retained more of its old customs. Still, you can find pleasure in the other people in this month's novel, even if the plot is silly. Nothing could reasonably make you care or feel surprised.
I think when she gets into princes, Dukes, jewels, spies, diplomats it becomes a farce.( eg, Cat Among the Pigeons, and silly spy stories like The Big Four, and some Tommy and Tuppence) Same goes for science fiction stories for me, they are all so removed from the norm that almost anything goes.
I feel AC is better with characters who came from what I imagine to have been her own social milieu.
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