This is my top favourite of all of Agatha Christie’s stories, and this reading by the marvellous Joan Hickson is pretty much perfect.Īlthough this is a Miss Marple tale, she doesn’t in fact appear until the last quarter of the book. But that shows you how smart Agatha Christie is to design and development classic mystery tactics that people wanted to follow.Excellent reading of a classic mystery novel… But as one of the flaws of reading this book as a contemporary reader, I foresaw some of the twists that happened in the book since they have been borrowed by so many other books and media works already. The mystery itself is well designed and twisting. So all the learning is done by the protagonist and we missed the process where Miss Marple learnt about the villagers, and her clever comments about people seem a little bit abrupt. Although it’s one of Miss Marple stories, she didn’t show up until the last third of the book. Gossips, relationships, people’s foibles. There are so many other things to uncover in this village besides the mystery.
And same as Jerry Burton, I enjoyed learning the villagers’ personalities and are amused by the local orders they are following.
Little did they know what they would experience.īecause it’s a first-person perspective, this book feels different from other Miss Marple stories, and it’s the first time we are following an outsider of the village, and learn the local custom with him.
The book was written from the first-person perspective, following Jerry Burton who was injured in an airplane accident, so he follows his doctor’s advice, moving to a small village where nothing happens called Lymstock with his sister Joanna to have some quiet recovering time. This is the third full-length novel in the Miss Marple series.
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