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Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
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And Then There Were None / Murder at the Vicarage / Death on the Nile /
The Secret of Chimneys / 4:50 From Paddington / The Secret Adversary,
by Agatha Christie.
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Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
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And Then There Were None
It seems unlikely that anyone would be unfamiliar with this story - so much is this been a part of growing up. The island where the chosen group has been invited to take a free holiday all paid, where they meet each other after a solitary journey and go on to the mansion to spend the holiday - only to find they are dying, one by one. They are being popped off, but they are only themselves on the island, and no one coming, no way to leave for anyone. It seems unlikely it could be one of them, and yet ...
October 18, 2008.
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Murder at the Vicarage
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Death on the Nile
One of the most famous from this writer, not the least due to the spectacular film - the story does lend itself to a spectacular film, rather. A beautiful young woman who is a rich heiress, with a brand new handsome bridegroom, setting out on her honeymoon - only, he had unceremoniously ditched his previous lover when he saw the beauty he married, and it so happened the two young women had been best friends, in fact that is how the couple had met. Now, the spurned lover is haunting them on the honeymoon, she is there everywhere they can and do go, no matter how carefully they camouflage their plans. Finally they are on a cruise on the Nile together, and she joins the cruise just as they are congratualting each other. Now there is no escape. And then begin the deaths...
October 21, 2008.
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The Secret of Chimneys /
4:50 From Paddington
The Secret of Chimneys /
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4:50 From Paddington
An elderly woman on the train sees a man in another train running parallel throttling a woman to death, while he is oblivious to her watching - his back is to the window. She is thouroughly traumatised, and reports it as soon as she can at a railway station. But there is no dead woman on any train or a dead body dumped near any tracks anywhere possible where a parallel running train at that time could have stopped. And yet - she is sure, she saw the murder taking place, was not mistaken, dreaming of hallucinating. Fortunately she has an intelligent friend, another elderly woman, the fraile white haired Miss Marple.
October 18, 2008.
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The Secret Adversary,
The Secret Adversary,
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