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She, thus, enlists the aid of her influential friend, Sir Henry Clithering, ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard, in seeing that justice prevails.In this book, there are 13 stories in all, each running a several pages in length. Peter".
So, it's really not as good as her mysteries where it takes an entire book to unravel a bunch of clues in a single murder but it's still pretty good. Some of these stories also crop up elsewhere in other compendiums of Christie's work.The chief theme here is that local aristocrats sit around a table and each person spins a mystery for the rest to solve.
This is one of Christie's rather cunning vehicles for marketing very short Miss Marple mysteries, blending one episode into the next, essentially melding it into one tale. A few of these tales are a stretch to one's imagination, ergo, "The Thumb Mark of St.
Of course, Miss Marple solves them all, entirely based upon her endless observations of human nature in her home Hamlet of St. Mary Mead.
in other words, a little silly.As a final story, Miss Marple is made aware of a local murder and she knows that the wrong person has been accused of the crime and will almost certainly hang for it if she doesn't break the case. Due to the type of book that it is, I recommend that potential buyers opt for the paperback version which travels easily with you to the doctor's office, or to work if you have an easy job.I certainly recommend the book but, if it were me, I'd just borrow it from the library unless you are a Christie collector.
These are short stories and not novels so you should not expect complex plot development or character descriptions. The number is correct (1-6) but the list of stories on 3 and 5 are swapped and 4 and 6 are swapped.
There are 13 stories and not 5 as the cassette reviews state. It looks like Amazon has taken the reviews of the audio casette set with the same name and put them on this product.
The labeling is wrong on four of the CDs. They take up 6 CDs.
There is one technical flaw. Once you solve that mystery things go well.
They are a good way to kill half an hour of otherwise wasted time in your life.
Christie has a way of peppering in intrigue, complications and duplicity, and supplying a common sense conclusion based on combining experience and appreciation of human nature and simplicity. "People are really much the same" is the catch phrase of this book they just opperate on different scales of vice and volume but the nature is the same and drawing conclusions from human nature the same whether in a small country town or a large city. Some of the endings were highly contrived.
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