A review by octavia_cade
The Blood-Stained Pavement: A Short Story by Agatha Christie

mysterious fast-paced

3.0

This is the second Miss Marple short story in a row where I solved the mystery before Miss Marple told me the answer, which is possibly the most successful I've ever been as a mystery reader. Admittedly, it was less a shining insight on my part, and more a decision to look for the most domestic detail and assume it was key to the entire thing... no surprises that, when the question of laundry came up, I knew I was on the right track to an answer. 

So far, the solutions to the short stories in this series have hinged on cooking, gardening, and laundry (plus one wandering off the domestic topic altogether in the silly temple of Astarte story) so it admittedly didn't take a great deal of perspicacity on my part to realise the trend.