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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side wasn’t on my reading list.
It’s perfectly fun, but it doesn’t rise to the level of other Miss Marple mysteries . The murder takes a little while to occur, so we spend the opening chapters in the idyllic town of St. New homes are being built, and there’s a divide between the people who have always lived in the town and the newcomers in the development. Nothing means or nefarious, of course, just the sense that Miss Marple is part of an older version of the town that is now fading. Though well-meaning, Miss Knight tends to be overprotective, infantilizing Miss Marple to a degree that the reader knows is absurd.
Miss Marple is old but not incapable, and her mind is plenty sharp. The plot returns to Gossington Hall, where the body was found in The Body in the Library . Miss Marple is quickly brought up to speed by Mrs. Unlike The Murder of Roger Ackroyd where the clues became increasingly obvious and I had the sense that Christie was pushing me toward the correct conclusion in her own time, I feel like I caught this one ahead of schedule. Miss Marple is as delightful as ever, though it pained me to see her treated as an invalid.
It’s perfectly fun, but it doesn’t rise to the level of other Miss Marple mysteries . The murder takes a little while to occur, so we spend the opening chapters in the idyllic town of St. New homes are being built, and there’s a divide between the people who have always lived in the town and the newcomers in the development. Nothing means or nefarious, of course, just the sense that Miss Marple is part of an older version of the town that is now fading. Though well-meaning, Miss Knight tends to be overprotective, infantilizing Miss Marple to a degree that the reader knows is absurd.
Miss Marple is old but not incapable, and her mind is plenty sharp. The plot returns to Gossington Hall, where the body was found in The Body in the Library . Miss Marple is quickly brought up to speed by Mrs. Unlike The Murder of Roger Ackroyd where the clues became increasingly obvious and I had the sense that Christie was pushing me toward the correct conclusion in her own time, I feel like I caught this one ahead of schedule. Miss Marple is as delightful as ever, though it pained me to see her treated as an invalid.
Miss Marple finds herself not only dealing with a murder but a changing village and a overly fussy nurse/ care giver.
The mystery is pretty good. What I really liked was how Miss Marple explained people.
The mystery is pretty good. What I really liked was how Miss Marple explained people.
unfortunately my memory held up on the solution *and* it’s one where miss marple is quite frustrated and feels a bit imprisoned, so not christie’s worst but not her best!
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
one of my favourite miss marple novels for sure. I too would move in with her if I could.
all the characters felt vivid and real, and the mystery was the right medium between easily solvable and far-fetched. a really solid later agatha christie work!!
all the characters felt vivid and real, and the mystery was the right medium between easily solvable and far-fetched. a really solid later agatha christie work!!
mysterious
medium-paced
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was my first Miss Marple Mystery and I loved it so much! The atmosphere and writing are unmatched
This was my first Agatha Christie book, and I'm wishing I'd picked one earlier in the series (world?). A lot of the character references felt like callbacks rather than introductions, so I felt like I was playing catch up fairly often. That being said, I am now in love with Miss Marple, and I will absolutely be finding more at the local library. I probably won't reread this, but I absolutely enjoyed the book cover to cover.
From all Agatha Christie books that I have read that's the only one that I own. I don't remember what happened but I remember that it wasn't my favorite.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Diverse cast of characters:
No