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I am passionate about reading and I keep on reading all the while. In fact, I am the HAPPIEST when I buy books and read them.
The Book I finished yesterday is 'The Moving Finger' by Dame Agatha Christie.
This is a Miss Marple novel published in 1942, and this mystery is one of Agatha Christie's own favorites. It is set in the quiet village of Little Furze in Lymstock, The story is being told by the hero Jerry Burton, an appealing narrator, very human who has gone to Little Furze to recuperate, ably guided by his sister, Joanna. But the place is in turmoil as someone is sending nasty letters to various residents; even Jerry and Joanna receive one accusing them of an incestuous affair.Together the Burtons meet up with their fair share of village characters, most of them very well bred. The doctor, the lawyer, the minister, the banker and their wives and families. One among them, however, is an insanely calculating killer, and many villagers are receiving obscene anonymous letters which puts the whole village on edge.
The plot is great, the mystery nearly impossible to figure out, clues are subtler, and its fun to find things that people said that meant more than one thing.
Ms. Marple, Christie's charming lady detective, enters the story as "an expert" where the local police have failed- vaguely reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes... She is hardly in the book at all, she simply explains it when the whole thing is over. Jerry Burton takes the limelight as the actual detective.
An excellent read and I loved going through the mystery.
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Now, I am on my way to read 'An Inheritance of Loss' by Anita Desai. I really can't wait to get my hands on this Book.
The Book I finished yesterday is 'The Moving Finger' by Dame Agatha Christie.
This is a Miss Marple novel published in 1942, and this mystery is one of Agatha Christie's own favorites. It is set in the quiet village of Little Furze in Lymstock, The story is being told by the hero Jerry Burton, an appealing narrator, very human who has gone to Little Furze to recuperate, ably guided by his sister, Joanna. But the place is in turmoil as someone is sending nasty letters to various residents; even Jerry and Joanna receive one accusing them of an incestuous affair.Together the Burtons meet up with their fair share of village characters, most of them very well bred. The doctor, the lawyer, the minister, the banker and their wives and families. One among them, however, is an insanely calculating killer, and many villagers are receiving obscene anonymous letters which puts the whole village on edge.
The plot is great, the mystery nearly impossible to figure out, clues are subtler, and its fun to find things that people said that meant more than one thing.
Ms. Marple, Christie's charming lady detective, enters the story as "an expert" where the local police have failed- vaguely reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes... She is hardly in the book at all, she simply explains it when the whole thing is over. Jerry Burton takes the limelight as the actual detective.
An excellent read and I loved going through the mystery.
👍🏼 👍🏼 👍🏼
Now, I am on my way to read 'An Inheritance of Loss' by Anita Desai. I really can't wait to get my hands on this Book.
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