Sleeping Murder
Volume 77 in The Agatha Christie Collection (1976). Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense...
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Volume 77 in The Agatha Christie Collection (1976). Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs...In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.
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ISBN:
9780002317856 (0002317850)
Pages no: 242
Edition language: English
Well I found this one very interesting. I have had this book on my shelf for a while, just didn't get around to reading it. This is the last of the Miss Marple standalone novels. She doesn't quite go out with a bang, but seems content with helping a newly married couple. "Sleeping Murder" follows ...
It took me until nearly the very end to have a strong thought about who did it, but it was only by the last 10 pages was I able to guess. This was a fun one.
Her words held all the pointed innuendo that elderly ladies are able to achieve with the minimum of actual statement. I had low expectations for this one. Nemesis broke me. Nemesis was the book that obliterated any regards I may have harboured for Miss Marple. It seems, however, that Sleeping Murd...
Miss Marple puzzles it out again.
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