#79 in Crime & mystery
Crooked House
- 224
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Film 2017
- On screen
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Our view
“Crooked House” is a short, dark Agatha Christie mystery about murder inside a family, and it keeps its reader hooked. In little more than two hundred pages the puzzle never leaves the household, and mutual mistrust carries the tension. Some readers are disappointed by the ending and find the solution hard to believe. Those who like their whodunits confined to a small group will be well served.
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About the book
Crooked House is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmCrooked HouseIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 219 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 60% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 11 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 208 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Crooked House?
It has 224 pages — shorter than 95% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
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