by Agatha Christie
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.
In the beginning, a personal anecdote:As a child, I was troubled intermittently by a nightmare. I am walking around the compound of my maternal grandfather's ancestral home, when I reach a dilapidated building in a secluded corner. I open it and enter, even though my better sense counsels against i...
Well the mystery was good, but there sure are a lot of characters coming in and out - so it's kinda hard to keep track.
A dramatisation of a novel written in 1940, but not published until 1976, the year in which Agatha Christie died.'Sleeping Murder' is Miss Marple's last case, and contains references to some familiar figures such as Colonel Melchett and Mrs Bantry from 'The Body in the Library' and the sleuth's neph...
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