Sophia tells Charles that she can't marry him until the matter is cleared up. The autopsy reveals that Leonides was poisoned with his own eserine-based eye medicine via an insulin injection. Due to the war, the whole family has been living with him in a sumptuous but ill-proportioned house called "Three Gables", the crooked house of the title.
Hayward returns home and reads a death notice in The Times: Sophia's grandfather, the wealthy entrepreneur Aristide Leonides, has died, aged 85.
They put off getting engaged until the end of the war when they will be reunited in England. Towards the end of the Second World War, Charles Hayward is in Cairo and falls in love with Sophia Leonides, a smart, successful Englishwoman who works for the Foreign Office. Charles's father, "The Old Man", is Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, so Charles investigates from the inside along with assigned detective Chief Inspector Taverner. After Aristide is poisoned by his own eye medicine ( eserine), his granddaughter Sophia tells narrator and fiancé Charles Hayward that they cannot marry until the killer is apprehended. His second wife is the indolent Brenda, decades his junior, suspected of having a clandestine love affair with Laurence, the grandchildren's tutor. His first wife Marcia died her sister Edith has cared for the household since then. Three generations of the Leonides family live together under wealthy patriarch Aristide. twisted and twining", meaning unhealthily interdependent on the intensely strong personality of the family patriarch, Aristide Leonides.
Narrator Charles's fiancée Sophia says it refers not to dishonesty, but rather "we hadn't been able to grow up independent. The title refers to a nursery rhyme (" There Was a Crooked Man"), a common theme of the author. Christie said the titles of this novel and Ordeal by Innocence were her favourites amongst her own works.
The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Crooked House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 23 May of the same year.
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