"You can make what claims you will about the psychological nuance of Proust or the narrative scope of Tolstoy, but you can't argue that Mrs. Christie fails to please. Her books are tremendously satisfying ... But I think there is another reason they please – a reason that is at least as important, if not more so – and that is that in Agatha Christie's universe everyone eventually gets what they deserve."
Amor Towles, Rules of Civility, 2011