Academics crack Agatha Christie's code

[chesilbeach]

How to spot whodunnit: academics crack Agatha Christie's code

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/02/academics-unlock-formula-agatha-christies-mysteries

[Chrissy]

Do I read the article or do I carry on stumbling clueless through the novels as I currently do? 

 

I think I will give the article a read, and take it from there. 

[Athena]

Interesting article ! It's amazing to think about their conclusions.

 

I'm not entirely sure about the formulas, there seem to be a few errors in them. There is no second ')' in the first formula, and I'm thinking the 'f' in the second formula appearing twice, can't be right. I think the 'f' preceding the ' [ ] ' brackets seems to be meaning 'function' rather than 'female', that would make more sense to me at least. It's not good though to use the exact same symbol for two meanings, that is just confusing. I could be totally wrong though.

[Anna Faversham]

I read this in my newspaper, slightly different slant from The Guardian, and I wish I hadn't! 

[mirandashell]

I did wonder whether to read it or not but I've read all of the books and know who all the murders are so I think I prefer to keep the magic!