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A review by jds70
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
5.0
I read Sleeping Murder several years ago, & it was my favorite Agatha Christie novel at that time. I recently re-read it, & it's still my favorite.
Recently married, young Gwenda Reed buys a house near the sea in Dillmouth, south England. It isn't long before she begins to have strange experiences in the house. She walks toward a wall in one room, expecting to find the door into the next room, but the door isn't there. But she feels it should be. She soon realizes she used to live there when she was younger, & a childhood dream she had might not be a dream at all, but a memory. A terrible memory. She may have witnessed a murder as a tiny girl. Miss Marple arrives & helps the would-be amateur detectives, Gwenda & her husband Giles, piece together the mystery of what happened one night that destroyed Gwenda's father.
Sleeping Murder is a very twisty mystery. I had my suspicions, but I was never quite sure who I thought was the guilty party, until their identity is revealed. I kept flip flopping between first one suspect, & then another, trying to solve the mystery alongside Gwenda, Giles, & Miss Marple.
Sleeping Murder was the last Miss Marple mystery, as well as Christie's final novel published after she died. Even then, at age 85, she was still at her peak; her insights into the darkness of the human psyche still as incisive as ever.
Recently married, young Gwenda Reed buys a house near the sea in Dillmouth, south England. It isn't long before she begins to have strange experiences in the house. She walks toward a wall in one room, expecting to find the door into the next room, but the door isn't there. But she feels it should be. She soon realizes she used to live there when she was younger, & a childhood dream she had might not be a dream at all, but a memory. A terrible memory. She may have witnessed a murder as a tiny girl. Miss Marple arrives & helps the would-be amateur detectives, Gwenda & her husband Giles, piece together the mystery of what happened one night that destroyed Gwenda's father.
Sleeping Murder is a very twisty mystery. I had my suspicions, but I was never quite sure who I thought was the guilty party, until their identity is revealed. I kept flip flopping between first one suspect, & then another, trying to solve the mystery alongside Gwenda, Giles, & Miss Marple.
Sleeping Murder was the last Miss Marple mystery, as well as Christie's final novel published after she died. Even then, at age 85, she was still at her peak; her insights into the darkness of the human psyche still as incisive as ever.