Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 137, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 835 & 836, March/April 2011

O dear deceptive Dame Agatha Christie,

Mistress of the mis-direction;

Master of the clue so misty—

Unequaled in mystery detection;

It is a mystery cliché

But one must suspect the unsuspected;

Like an early snow that will not lay

Upon the ground melting unmolested;

From And Then There Were None

To Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Like an elaborate web that’s spun

By a suspenseful spider of the heavens—

Many times I’ve been entangled

On a sticky plot that she has dangled!