They Do It With Mirrors
An old friend, Carrie Louise, has invited Miss Marple to her decaying mansion. It turns out to be anything but a quiet visit, however. Carrie’s husband Lewis has turned their home into a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquents. Miss Marple’s not shocked when one of the boys takes a shot at...
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An old friend, Carrie Louise, has invited Miss Marple to her decaying mansion. It turns out to be anything but a quiet visit, however. Carrie’s husband Lewis has turned their home into a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquents. Miss Marple’s not shocked when one of the boys takes a shot at Lewis, but she’s a little surprised when a different man turns up dead. Coincidence? Miss Marple must marshal her shrewdest insights about human nature in this intricately plotted mystery, read with panache by the acclaimed Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple in a variety of venues.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781572707337 (157270733X)
Publish date: 2007-05-01
Publisher: AudioGO
Edition language: English
Series: Miss Marple (#6)
I just loved this from beginning to end. As someone else said, I love it when Christie provides a diagram to show where a murder is. It's like you have your own game of Clue to play. Miss Marple is still the sharpest knife in the drawer. I can't say that I saw the ending at all. I was leaning toward...
I don´t have a whole lot to say about this book. It was kind of boring, tbh, which might be the worst thing to say about a mystery. Not one of my favorite Christie´s.
I did like it and, though it seemed quite obvious who the murderer was from an early stage (since that person talked to the police), I was still not so sure about the motives. I knew there was something wrong about the alleged poisoning of Carrie Louise, and I suspected there was no actual poison, y...
Miss Marple is awesome and some of the supporting characters aren't terrible either, but the mystery was pretty dull and that's a rather large sin for a mystery novel.