Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 2, March 1943

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Sometimes Agatha Christie’s style is so deceptively simple that you don’t realize you are shivering until you have finished reading the last paragraph. So beware... Agatha Christie is at her best in the straightforward crime story, and “Accident” is one of Miss Christie’s best crime stories — published here for the first time in America.

“And I tell you this — it’s the same woman — not a doubt of it!”

Captain Haydock looked into the eager, vehement face of his friend r and sighed. He wished Evans would not be so positive and so jubilant. In the course of a career spent at sea, the old sea captain had learned to leave things that did not concern him well alone. His friend Evans, late C.I.D. Inspector, had a different philosophy of life. “Acting on information received—” had been his motto in early days, and he had improved upon it to the extent of finding out his own information. Inspector Evans had been a very smart, wide-awake officer, and had justly earned the promotion which had been his. Even now, when he had retired from the force, and had settled down in the country cottage of his dreams, his professional instinct was still active.

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