Talk:Tropes in Agatha Christie's novels

This article was nominated for deletion on 16 February 2008. The result of the discussion was No consensus.

Are there any sources from which the article was written from?--Martin925 20:42, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From the source from which from was written the article from, from there therefrom the source from article writing from it. From Murder on the Orient Express therefrom sourced was the article contribution from. That is to say, from Agatha Christie from all sources written from provided from therefrom from. Indeed, any sources there are. 198.49.180.40 21:35, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:A. The answer above, though hardly coherent, is correct: the article is crammed with reliable, previously published, sources, i.e. books by Agatha Christie. Testbed 05:45, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The coherency of the question was reflected in the answer. 198.49.180.40 18:20, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And as I can't find an "argument" in the article (it's just a list), it sticks to the rules of NOR

Testbed 04:45, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plot device

Most of the things listed here are not in fact plot devices; they are recurring plot elements (possibly rising to the level of plot cliche) but a plot device is something whose entire purpose is to advance the plot. A 'twist ending' for example is not a plot device, it is a plot element. Can we rename this article? 199.71.183.2 (talk) 18:38, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. There is no need for the entire page to be deleted, simply retitle it something such as 'Elements of Agatha Cristie Novels.' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.90.222 (talk) 03:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Purpose of this article?

This entire article smacks of a how-to, ie: how to read Agatha Christie. Also, the anonymous editor's comment above is a very good point. It should probably be deleted. Exploding Boy (talk) 15:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cards on the Table, False Corpses and Subsequent Murder, WHOOPS!

In the subsection 'False Corpses and Subsequent Murder', there's a bit of an error. It says that the murderer tells a maid that the sleeping victim is dead, then kills him -- but that's not what happens in the book. In the book, the murderer takes advantage of an exciting hand of bridge (from which nobody's attention would be distracted), and takes a risk that the man would wake up -- stabbing him in his sleep.

Luckily for the murderer, the poor victim doesn't wake up upon being stabbed. But there was no maid involved -- instead, another guest (a young woman) later on, when it's her turn to be dummy, notices the knife embedded in the man, but rather than alert people and arouse suspicions she says nothing about it, leaving the novel's main protagonist, Hercule Poirot, to discover it. This really should be changed. 72.234.50.130 (talk) 04:56, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]