Miss Marple is called in to solve a murder. She actually has a small role in the story, which is narrated by a man on the scene (not one of the suspects). Marple appears a few pages before the end. It's a decent story but not among Christie's best in my opinion.
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Excellent classic Christie with Poirot using the little gray cells to solve a murder in retrospect. I got some of the mystery figured out but not all of it. Recomended.
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Haven't been keeping up with this log. This is a re-read of a book I read many years ago. Solid Christie.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Miss Marple's last case. A solid, classic Christie and a good read, but nothing special.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Death in the Air by Agatha Christie
Listened to this on audio while running. Not her best... the method of the murder is unnecessarily elaborate and the motive a little convoluted.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
This book is out of the ordinary for a Christie work, and one of her better efforts. Christie is not great literature, but there is more depth to her better books than she is usually given credit for, and this book is a case in particular.
Besides being a decent mystery, the book is also a meditation on the nature of evil. Is evil flashy and flamboyant, or small and mean, or perhaps both? Does supernatural evil really exist in the universe? Is the occult genuinely evil and is it effective? These and other similar questions are theme of the work.
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