I’m not conflating anything. Of course trial can take months, if not years. That has nothing to do with my comment.

According to the article, this is the timeline:

• ex wife Angela pleads guilty and is sentenced in October 2017.
• POS Ian Diaz is arrested in May 2021.

Why did they wait 3.5 years to arrest him after the ex wife was sentenced?

She did take a plea. That’s in the article and my comment. But the moment she took a plea (if not sooner), they should have had probable cause to arrest him, and yet they waited 3.5 years to make an arrest. Why? There would be zero reason to wait to simply make an arrest unless she was claiming he wasn’t involved or something, which seems crazy.

COVID definitely had a huge impact on courts, but it doesn’t explain why he wasn’t even arrested until 3.5 years after the ex wife took a plea.

I think the first two Mysterious Affair of Styles and Murder on the Links are good intros to Poirot to read before. I think it’s worth reading Ackroyd early because it’s so easy to get spoiled.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is her 6th novel and her third with Poirot. I disagree. I think it should be read early but not first.

Edit: actually I don’t disagree. Read in chron order and you’ll read Ackroyd third or fourth depending on the list.

Definitely. The restaurant probably has insurance as well. The original comment seemed to be talking about the Audi driver and I wouldn’t count on anything there, even if he could be located.

You think this person has insurance? I’m skeptical.

Of the 1,624 I tagged as Read:

Lowest: Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie - 2.88 stars based on 11,556 ratings. It’s definitely among her worst novels, but I’m surprised it’s so much lower than some others. I think Man in the Brown Suit is much worse and it has a 3.95.

Highest: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions by Jason Hickel - 4.63 stars based on 2,248 ratings.