pickThe village of Chipping Cleghorn is surprised by a very unusual newspaper announcement. This week, amongst the furniture for sale, the local gazette's announcement page contains an advertisement which reads: ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.‘
Unsure if it is a practical joke or one of those new 'murder mystery games', the neighbours gather at the house on Friday evening (continued)
pickMy second Miss Marple book. This one takes her out of the village of st Mary‘s mead, which was a bit of a shame, but I enjoyed the characters and again, did not guess who did it. She‘s so good.
pickI enjoyed this far more than I expected to. It‘s definitely a boilerplate mystery but much more winks and nods were felt over anything I read with Poirot. Maybe I just relate to Miss Marple more. 😅
Should be noted though - lots of not great allusions to POC, off hand comments to LGBTQIA, and pretty clumsy with discussion of mental illness. This was published in 1964 and it shows.
It‘s probably criminal of me to admit this is my first dalliance with this Agatha Christie heroine - but I had no idea Miss Marple was so saucy! And in the 1960s! 🤭
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Finally finished my first book of 2025!
This was a really good showing for Agatha Christie - definitely more on me than on her that it took me almost two weeks to read.
I ask for a Christie book every year from our work Secret Santa, and it‘s always fun to see what my colleagues pick for me 🤗
And, as ever, I didn‘t come close to guessing the true culprit.
My pick for favourite book of November for #12Booksof2024
Miss Marple at her absolute best.
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Getting back into #bookspinbingo. It's such a fun challenge 🤩
pickI really enjoy the Agatha Christie novels because they give an interesting glimpse of the past. I would have enjoyed to be a dancer at a hotel playing bridge with the guests. Hopefully I would have not ended as a dead body in the library - but one sitting wrapped up cozily in a comfortable armchair in the library.
This one starts off quite slowly but once Miss Marple appears, the pace picks up & the twists begin. It's classic Christie, where the subtle clues are liberally sprinkled throughout the narrative, 2d
TWs: xenophobia, chronic illness/death.
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