Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Who is Evans?

Title: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Author: Agatha Christie

ISBN: 0007122608 (ISBN13: 9780007122608)

Recurring Characters: None

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is packed with lots of thrilling, romantic and humorous scenes and the whole story is full of role playing acts. At one time, Bobby had to act as a passing motorist, a chauffeur and as far as impersonating Frankie's family solicitor! While Frankie, on the other hand, had to take the role of a clumsy driver and a political party representative. Throughout the story, Bobby and Frankie developed a romantic attachment to each other though Bobby was always strained by the social standing gap between him, a fourth son of a Vicar and Frankie, whom is a daughter of an aristocrat. A happy ending Romeo and Juliet story that just make me have to give a five-star rating for the exquisite plot!

A little bit of the story:

The thrilling (yet romantic) adventure of the duo amateur sleuths, Bobby and Frankie, to unveil the mystery of a dead man in Marchbolt begins with Bobby, playing golf on a misty day, heard a short cry from down a cliff. Upon arriving to where he suspected the cry came from, he saw a dying figure lying at the bottom of the cliff. While waiting for his golf-playing companion who went to look for help to come back, Bobby was left accompanying the dying stranger. Before going off to the next world, the man left Bobby with a curious remark "WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?", which meaning was found out later at near end of the story, a simply dumbfounded fact.

The story advanced with a swap of a photograph, which Bobby had seen from the stranger's pocket, with an entirely different photograph printed on the newspaper, said to have been found among the stranger's belongings and a woman who came to claim as the subject of the photograph on the newspaper and identified the dead man as her brother,
Alex Pritchard. Bobby later confided his suspicion to his friend, Lady Frances (Frankie) after he encountered a series of intentional accidents and schemes to make him out of this world. Both Bobby and Frankie became certain that the dead man must have been murdered and Bobby must have seen or hear something from the dead man that would lead to the murderer. Was the dead man really Alex Pritchard? Who had killed him and who in the world was Evans?