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Murder on the Orient Express / Death on the Nile /
The Mirror Cracked / The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,
by Agatha Christie.
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Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
Delightful collection, and looking forward to reading those I haven't yet read.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Another one from the writer that lends to a spectacular film - with the spectacular setting and the high profile story of a murder on the famous Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris, discovered while the snow has made the train stop, since a pass in the mountains in untraversable. There are a whole lot of charcters that could have done it - and the story unfolds to say what motive who had, as Monsieur Poirot happens to be at hand travelling on the train, willing and ready to conduct the investigation.
October 18, 2008.
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The Mirror Cracked
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 Mirror Cracked
One of the most poignant stories penned by the author, even in this format - it is a mystery, murder thriller, and solved by the unlikely looking detective underestimated by most who don't know her. Not too many murder mystery thrillers leave your heart totally in compassion with the one who perpetrated the horrors, the murders, in spite of your being completely in favour of law abiding and against the murders and in no way approving of the actions taken by the killer. One dislikes, disapproves and hates the person who is going about creating this terror, with multiple murders, and yet when one finally does get to the solution - and who better at finding this sort of mystery than the frail looking old woman with woolly hair, twinkling eyes, and generally a gentle demeanor who happens to observe unobtrusively and think sharp with her worldly experience adding to her detecting abilities - when she finally explains this one, it leaves you wrenched with compassion for the killer.
October 17, 2008.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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