But they soon discovered that the undercurrents of this placid backwater were both swift and dangerous. So thought Jerry Burton when he took a house there for himself and his sister Joanna. Dane Calthrop (with lobster) and bright, awkward Megan Hunter (one of Christie’s best adolescents).Īs a place to convalesce after a bad flying crash Lymstock sounded ideal. Pye a glamorous goddess of a governess (until she opens her mouth) Aimée Griffith, forthright and abominably extraverted the formidable Mrs. While not one of her best mysteries, the social comedy is delightful: the sophisticated townees the garrulous Mr. Clever touches include a memorable linguistic trick (“I can’t go on” – does this work in other languages?) and a second victim who saw nothing.Ĭhristie seems more interested in the people than the puzzle. The deception is daring in its simplicity – but transparent if you tumble to it. The plot is quite slight there’s little detection, and only one criminal sub-plot. Hers is, as others have observed, a cameo performance: a mere 12 pages – and she really doesn’t need to be in the book. The story is narrated by Jerry Burton, recuperating from a plane crash Miss Marple turns up three-quarters through, and then explains the mystery at the end. Urn:oclc:864447402 Scandate 20111115200713 Scanner is perhaps the quintessential ‘cosy’ Christie: a small English market town, 50 years behind the times respectable professional people (lawyers and doctors) and spinsters both male and female poison-pen letters deaths neatly off-stage (one suicide, one murder) and Miss Marple knitting pink fluffy woollen things in the corner. OL471905W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.87 Pages 214 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0425087964 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:30:48 Boxid IA108717 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Agatha Christie 100th anniversary ed.
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