Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel

Apply a feminist or gender-critical approach to your consideration of the novel. In what ways does Foley foreground and critique female experiences both positively and negatively?

How does the novel use winter sports as a narrative device? You might consider what these add to setting and context, and how they enable the themes and plot points.

The novel creates four unreliable first-person narrators. Plot how the narrative creates pacing and suspense by shifting suspicion between these main characters.

How does Foley use physical objects and references to foreground the sense of recent war in the novel’s 1950s setting?

How does Foley’s focus on trains and train travel correspond with Christie’s use of transport as a narrative device in the original Marple novels?

How does the imposter Inspector Christophe Moreau (Kristoph Mauer) use or subvert generic expectations around the infallible detective of traditional whodunit novels?

What does the novel have to say about temptation, coercion, and personal choice? How does this support its moral framework?

How does the novel use animals and animal imagery? Pay particular attention to the language used to describe these creatures, and the effects this creates.