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Ordeal by Innocence
by Agatha Christie
Banged through this one on a lovely suitable rainy day before I sit down to knit through the new BBC adaptation of it. Be the happily reclusive old age pensioner you wish to see in the world.
Also, this time through I noticed that quite a few Christie mysteries begin with the main character being symbolically taken across a body of water by a ferryman (Evil Under the Sun, Dead Man's Folly, And Then There Were None, Towards Zero, The Man in the Brown Suit... I'm blanking. Christie nerds, assemble!)
ETA: OMG, the movie is sooooooooo much better than the book.
Also, this time through I noticed that quite a few Christie mysteries begin with the main character being symbolically taken across a body of water by a ferryman (Evil Under the Sun, Dead Man's Folly, And Then There Were None, Towards Zero, The Man in the Brown Suit... I'm blanking. Christie nerds, assemble!)
The boat grounded on the beach. He had crossed the Rubicon.A few minutes later Calgary negotiates his way past the housekeeper who answers the door, he refers to her as the watchdog. This sort of thing keeps me happy for years.
The ferryman's soft West Country voice said: "That will be fourpence, sir, or do you want a return?"
"No," Calgary said. "There will be no return." (How fateful the words sounded!)
He paid.
ETA: OMG, the movie is sooooooooo much better than the book.