Was I? [laughs] I was just trying to put your thinking in the right mindset.
A mystery novel is an intellectual challenge from the author to the reader. If you knew to be aware of the conventions, such as Knox's 4th: "no unknown drugs, poisons, or difficult to comprehend scientific devices are to be used", then you would have picked up on the reference to wasps and poison immediately. --Or at least a mite quicker.
But you managed to identify the culprit and the accomplice. You avoided the trap so many fall into... the fantasy that there must be an eleventh person on the island who is conducting the killings.
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A mystery novel is an intellectual challenge from the author to the reader. If you knew to be aware of the conventions, such as Knox's 4th: "no unknown drugs, poisons, or difficult to comprehend scientific devices are to be used", then you would have picked up on the reference to wasps and poison immediately. --Or at least a mite quicker.
But you managed to identify the culprit and the accomplice. You avoided the trap so many fall into... the fantasy that there must be an eleventh person on the island who is conducting the killings.