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this point, I have given up trying to play Guess The Culprit with Agatha Christie mysteries, It's just not possible. She's like a magician who tells an audience that she's going to make a coin disappear and reappear, The coin disappears, and she tells you to watch her right hand, You, who have seen magic shows before, think "Aha! Misdirection! I'll watch her left hand, and then I'll see how the trick is done.
" So you're watching her left hand, and everyone else is watching her right hand, and then suddenly the coin appears out of nowhere and no one has any idea how she did that.
Meanwhile the assistant, who you've completely forgotten about, has just transformed into a dog and then your brain explodes,

That's what reading a good Agatha Christie book is like, This is one of the good ones, My favorite Christie stories are the ones where multiple people get murdered, A murder occurs, people start looking for the killer, and then BAM somebody else is found dead and you realize that whoever the killer is he/she is fucking nuts and you don't know who's going to die next.
It adds a great deal of tension and urgency to the story, and I love it,

Now I have two complaints, one serious and one absurd, that contributed to this Iklan Pembunuhan's fourinsteadoffive star rating,

The serious: Miss Marple is more present in this book than she was in The Body in the Library, but she still keeps to the sidelines a lot and it's frustrating.
She's not even mentioned by name until page, and I think it'd be nice if she could solve a mystery on her own instead of waiting for the police to invite her into their Boys Only Mystery Solving Clubhouse.


The absurd: Quotes like this, when the police are discussing the inhabitants of the village where the murder took place: "'Nice old pussies and retired colonels.
Lord, I wish I had my own particular old pussy here, Wouldn't she like to get her nice ladylike teeth into this'
'Who's your own particular pussy, Henry An aunt'"

Okay, I understand that Agatha Christie's definition of "pussy" is vastly different from my own, But this is like that part in Arrested Development where they actually got a character to call someone a pussy without it being censored, because they claimed it was a British term for a nice person.
We all know what they're really doing, and that's delighting in being able to use that word freely on TV, Speaking of Arrested Development, you should all be proud of me for resisting the urge to toss out an "It's an illusion!" reference during that magician analogy I made up there.
You're welcome.

Once would be understandable, and a sign that my dirty mind has gone too far, but then it happens again: "'Ye gods and little fishes,' said Sir Henry, 'can it be George, it's my own particular, one and only, fourstarred pussy.
The super pussy of all old pussies, '"

Oh come on, Christie, Now you're just messing with me,
" I prefer Poirotnovels to Marple ones, but this book has always been in the Topon my Agatha Christie favourites list,

This time I actually put myself the question "why",
It is NOT because of the investigation or the solution of the crime, even though it is very well done in the classic Agatha Christie style: red herrings are there to lead you astray real clues are hidden in plain sight and yet elude you completely.


The answer is characterization, which is perfect: concise and revealing, Dame Agatha depicts her characters without mercy everyone has motive/potential/opportunity to commit murder and yet with humour amp a deep understanding people are the same everywhere: we are all human with faults and foibles.


This insight into characters as well as the milieu they are placed in reminds me a bit of Jane Austen and what she wrote to her niece Anna on writing novels: “orFamilies in a Country village is the very thing to work on”.
Also a quote from Elizabeth Bennet comes to mind: “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
” So this mixture of Jane Austen amp Agatha Christie which delights me in this particular novel, In A Murder Is Announced, a notice appears in the local papers stating the time and location of a murder, The neighbors, thinking it was all great fun, show up en masse, When a murder actually happens and it becomes clear this is no game, fear quickly takes over, In steps old, fussy, adorable Mrs, Marple, with her astute observations and keen awareness of human nature,

This story is so fun and quintessentially Agatha Christiea locked room mystery, a handful of suspects, and plenty of red herrings and secrets everywhere.
And when it's all explained in the end, it's just so damn satisfying to have everything tie up in a logical manner, I had an inkling of the guilty party this time, though not the underlying motives, but that didn't diminish my enjoyment of this book,

I first started reading Agatha Christie inth grade, Over the last few years, I've been embarking on a slow reread of her books with the goal of getting through them all, This is one of her personal favorites, so I had high expectations going in, And once again, as always, she doesn't let me down! The local gazette of Chipping Cleghorn announces a murder at:p, m. at Little Paddocks, the home of the very respectable Ms, Leticia Blacklock. While most people take it as a bit of good if rather rude bit of fun, no one was expecting the assailant to be the one to actually lose his life.
. . or anyone else, really.

As the participants are all busy assuring the police that they knew nothing about nobody, they manage to simultaneously remember the most bizarre details.
Though none of them have any doubts about it being a suicide, Intrepid inspector Dermot Haddock however, suspects foul play,



For a murdermystery touted as possibly the best of Dame sitelink Agatha Christie, it took me quite a while to warm up to it.
As any selfrespecting crime story penned by the author, it has a truckload of characters to keep track of: Leticia Blacklock, the assailant, her companion, her nephew and niece, a lodger,neighbors, the vicar's somewhat ditzy wife, assorted hotel staff, the investigating team, a longdead billionaire and his currentlydying wife, and Ms.
Marple, in all her delightfully polite and apologetic investigative capacity, So the initial murder left me almost as confused as Ms, Blacklock's poor companion, although significantly less impressed by the events,

To be fair, the whole setup, reasoning, cheating, betrayal, and whatnot are all very cleverly done, And I thoroughly enjoyed following every one of Ms, Marple's threads of logic. Especially, when it was clear how much she loved providing the detective with her insights, but would very politely maintain an air of "I really shouldn't stick my nose into this".
. . At least at the beginning,



There were of course individual characters that I've loved from the get go: such as the subtly supercilious niece, the vicar's apparentlyditzybutactually clever wife, and the ailing Mrs.
Goedler during her lucid moments,

On the whole however, so many characters where annoying, and some of them had a tendency to just chatter on and on, I ended up tuning them out, or attributing their slipofthetongue to a typo, Multiple times. Which is rather bothersome of me, . . I guess.

Score:./stars

I wasn't too keen on the omniscient POV, here, It just threw a whole lot of things at me at once,
And I couldn't shake the feeling , that all those ladies who lived together weren't doing so, . . ugh platonically. I'd say I read too much smut these days, but theTV series confirms at least one of these pairings,

All in all, a very well construed mystery, but the character introduction could've done with a bit less confusion,


sitelinkMurder at the Vicarage
sitelinkThe Thirteen Problems
sitelinkThe Body in the Library
sitelinkThe Moving Finger I thoroughly enjoyed this one a really engaging read, with great characters and

a strong mystery.
Agatha Christie Book Reading Challenge

BOOK: FEB

STARS At a time when my literary relationship with the queen of mystery is strained, A Murder is Announced comes my way to renew my interest and confidence in her yet again.
This fourth installment of the Miss Marple series is quite interesting, and even if it is not one of her best, it was nevertheless cleverly written.
The motive for the crime was based on one of her favourite recurring themes of monetary benefit, But, the overall story had originality in it,

In this murdermystery, I see a different approach to writing by Agatha Christie, Rather than narrating the story in quite a grave and composed manner, she has dramatized it in such a way that it felt more like a play.
I think the setting of the story in a small village with a closely knitted community where everybody knows everybody and everybody's gossip helped Christie to achieve this feat.
And there was plenty of humour thrown in by Christie with some nearly comical characters,

Miss Marple was present from quite the beginning and plays an active and vital role in uncovering the criminal, This smart old lady untangles the clues that were even baffling to the police, I guessed the criminal right and so scored a point ahead of the police, But the whole puzzle, which seems clear to Miss Marple, baffled me equally, I'm happy to say that there, Christie was ahead of me, :

I enjoyed the story, its authenticity, the dramatic quality, the humour, and the cleverness of Miss Marple, But, overall, I found it a bit too slow, and at times overwritten and repetitive, However, this book gave me hope and confidence to explore more works of our dear queen of crimes, .