The Unbreakable Alibi by Agatha Christie: A Short Story #AgathaChristieSS24

🔷️ The story must have been set during earlier days of the newly married couple Tommy and Tuppence's new detective agency business. A client came one day with unusual "problem" to be solved. A stuttering young man, who's in love with an intelligent girl who likes to play games, is presented with a challenge from the girl. He sees that solving the challenge would be the only way to win her love, so now he prepares to pay whatever expenses needed to solve it.

🔷️ The case is about a double alibi. The girl claimed that she had been in two different locations- one in London and the other in Torquay - at the same time. Tommy and Tuppence decide to accept the case, and off they go to restaurant, hotel, and theater, as well as interviewing her friends, to check on the girl's alibi. Surely one of it would prove to be fake.

🔷️ On the whole, it is one of the easiest mysteries to solve. I'm sure almost every Golden Age detective-story writer must have used the same trope. But maybe it's still new when Christie wrote this? Anyway, unexciting as it was as mystery, it's always fun to read another Tommy and Tuppence's adventure, is it not? As well as the appearance of the faithful Albert - who was still an office boy in this story.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐