"How pleasant to meet Miss Marple again." -Literary Times Supplement
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Oct 09, 2011
Peter
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"This is quite high on my list of Christie mysteries. I've always thought it had a highly evocative murder victim and unusual and passionate reason behind the murder.Considering it is late Christie, this is among her best of her final years.
Miss Marple is called from beyond the grave by an acquaintance, Jason Rafiel, to solve a crime. Typical of this period, Jane doesn't know who was murdered, where, how, or any other pertinant details. In accordance with a will (where she wi More...
Miss Marple is called from beyond the grave by an acquaintance, Jason Rafiel, to solve a crime. Typical of this period, Jane doesn't know who was murdered, where, how, or any other pertinant details. In accordance with a will (where she wi More...
Jun 05, 2011
Badarudheen
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Agatha Christie's Nemesis in which Miss Marple is the protagonist, also happened to be one of my first Miss Marple book that I completely read. It's not that exciting and enjoyable as Hercule Poirot books. But, nevertheless, it has its own style and I should say I didn't feel bored while reading this book. Since, it's an Agatha Christie book I didn't expect any bloodcurdling action, only a good suspense and a case that solved using just the 'grey-cells'.
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Jun 14, 2010
Laurel
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Oct 19, 2009
owl
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buzenk like it! =D
Bingung mau mulai darimana, tapi aku suka buku ini karena aku cukup bisa menebak pembunuhnya! hehe..*bangga*.
Ceritanya tentang Miss Marple yang mendapat surat dari temannya, Mr. Rafiel, yang isinya berupa tawaran untuk menyelidiki suatu kasus yang, akhirnya diketahui, melibatkan anaknya, Michael Rafiel. Miss Marple hanya diberi instruksi-instruksi yang nihil informasi. Tapi akhirnya Miss Marple berhasil mengungkap kasus tersebut--kasus pembunuhan, yang t More...
Bingung mau mulai darimana, tapi aku suka buku ini karena aku cukup bisa menebak pembunuhnya! hehe..*bangga*.
Ceritanya tentang Miss Marple yang mendapat surat dari temannya, Mr. Rafiel, yang isinya berupa tawaran untuk menyelidiki suatu kasus yang, akhirnya diketahui, melibatkan anaknya, Michael Rafiel. Miss Marple hanya diberi instruksi-instruksi yang nihil informasi. Tapi akhirnya Miss Marple berhasil mengungkap kasus tersebut--kasus pembunuhan, yang t More...
Jun 26, 2011
Maureen
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This wasn't my favorite of Agatha Christie's books (personally, I think I prefer Poirot to Miss Marple), but it's still an entertaining read. Christie engages in her usual narrative study of human nature, with a good dose of social commentary thrown into the mix. Fair warning to any feminists out there: there are numerous comments female promiscuity (mainly made by male characters, but not refuted by Marple) that literally made me wince and reminded me that, despite her independence and succes
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Jun 17, 2011
Judy
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Every so often I have to dip back into the authors active in the Golden Age of Mystery and one of the most popular is Agatha Christie. Imagine my surprise when I realized that this 12th book in the Miss Jane Marple series was published in 1971 and was one of Christie's last books. Miss Jane Marple received a letter from a Mr. Rafiel, a wealthy man who was a character in Mystery in the Caribbean, asking her to undertake the unraveling of a crime. Unable to question Mr. Rafiel, who had recently
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May 17, 2011
Lorraine
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This Miss Marple mystery was written in 1971 and it's obvious due to the language that it's not one of the older novels. Miss Marple reads of the death of a rich man she had met while on vacation (see Mystery in the Caribbean). His solicitor sends her a letter from Mr. Rafiel (the deceased man) asking her to solve a mystery, but not explaining what the mystery is. She then receives an invitation to take a coach tour around famous British homes and gardens, which Mr. R has paid for her. While
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Aug 01, 2011
Kurt
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This book has many of the hallmarks of the worst of Christie's work: an achingly slow pace, details explicitly designed to appeal only to quiet women over 60, and a mystery with only one real suspect (although Christie does make half-hearted efforts at misdirection, ineffective as they are). The central mystery is not bad at all - Miss Marple receives a vague request to solve a crime and must gradually piece together clues as she primly tiptoes through hoops set up by an old acquaintance who has
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Mar 25, 2011
Philip
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First read this in 1973. NEMESIS was the last Miss Marple novel Christie wrote, though not the last one published - that distinction went to SLEEPING MURDER, written in the 1940s, which was subtitled "Miss Marple's Last Case." However, there was nothing at all about SLEEPING MURDER to suggest that it should have been considered Miss Marple's "last case" (and current editions, I believe, no longer make that reference) whereas NEMESIS has an almost elegiac quality and atmosp
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Jun 12, 2009
Roz
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This is the sequel to A Carribean Mystery. It takes a while for the action of this book to get going, because the premise is that Jane Marple must first discover the details of the crime she is supposed to investigate, before she actually gets down to investigating it. During the first half of the novel, the mystery itself is the biggest mystery; once the mystery is known, the plot unfolds fairly swiftly.
It's an interesting device--having Miss Marple stumble about for more than 100 p More...
It's an interesting device--having Miss Marple stumble about for more than 100 p More...
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Nov 06, 2011
Chavonne
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This is the last novel writted by Agatha Christie, but not the last published. Because it was written so much earlier than published, there are glaring consistencies, the main being Marple's age. In this novel, she is really, really old--if she had lived as long as it seemed for events to transpire in future novels, she would have been supernaturally ancient by this time. If that can be forgiven, this novel is much, much better than the last Poirot written. Marple is asked by a friend to uncover
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Oct 27, 2010
Tia
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This book was okay. It was hard to get into at first. The first mystery in the book is Mrs. Jane Marple finding out what crime she has to solve. She receives a letter from a man named Mr. Rafiel who died. He wants her to solve a crime for him. She is left totally in the dark after reading the letter. All she knows is that she is she will get a large sum of money from Mr. Rafiel if she solves the crime. As the book goes on she receives more and more clues but they are very vague. She eventually f
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Jan 04, 2012
Rachel
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I kind of wonder how to go about reviewing an Agatha Christie book. To talk about her writing as good or bad seems about as valuable as talking about whether bread is good or bad. Whether bread Is good or bad, Food as a whole revolves around it.
Whether you read Agatha Christie or not, you can't deny that she created (or at least substantially contributed to the creation of) a genre: British detective stories. It is amazing to read my first Agatha Christie book after watching count More...
Whether you read Agatha Christie or not, you can't deny that she created (or at least substantially contributed to the creation of) a genre: British detective stories. It is amazing to read my first Agatha Christie book after watching count More...
Nov 06, 2010
Kate
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My five stars come with reservations. This is a bang-up mystery where Miss Marple takes on Capital-E Evil at the behest of a recently deceased acquaintance - the Mr. Rafiel who was her partner in A Caribbean Mystery. Twisty and turny and psychological and creepy, for sure. My reservations are about Christie's stance on social issues in this book: the repeated stress on the idea that because there's "now" less stigma for reporting rape, girls' mothers pressure them to claim rape afte
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Nov 13, 2011
Lori
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Even though I thought I'd read every Agatha Christie book that existed, I discovered that I had never read "Nemesis".
While I enjoyed the book, I found it quite dark and... something. If I had Miss Marple's sense of evil, I'd say that the book definitely has the sense of evil about it - it's almost oppressive. Perhaps because Miss Marple is feeling old. She thinks and acts elderly, and much of the book is her thought process, all of it.
The first few pages were p More...
While I enjoyed the book, I found it quite dark and... something. If I had Miss Marple's sense of evil, I'd say that the book definitely has the sense of evil about it - it's almost oppressive. Perhaps because Miss Marple is feeling old. She thinks and acts elderly, and much of the book is her thought process, all of it.
The first few pages were p More...
Dec 02, 2009
Kris
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Sepanjang novel ini pembaca dituntun sedikit demi sedikit seperti anjing yang mengendus jejak. Pembunuhan maupun korban pembunuhan tidak ditemui dalam bab2 awal novel tetapi terangkai sedikit demi sedikit hingga membentuk suatu keseluruhan.
Novel ini cukup cerkas dengan ceritera yang sederhana yang dijalin berbalik bertahun-tahun lampau. Tentang seorang gadis, pemuda yang dituduh membunuhnya, dan tentang cinta...
Satu kata yang kurekam di akhir novel ini yang membuatku memb More...
Novel ini cukup cerkas dengan ceritera yang sederhana yang dijalin berbalik bertahun-tahun lampau. Tentang seorang gadis, pemuda yang dituduh membunuhnya, dan tentang cinta...
Satu kata yang kurekam di akhir novel ini yang membuatku memb More...
Dec 22, 2008
Jeff
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Nemesis was a great read. It is short but exciting and this book had a great storyline and a compelling plot. My one complaint about Agatha Christie (and mystery writers in general) is that she will just show up with clues at the end of the book that she didn’t point out to the reader during the story. I had the villain figured out and the reasons why the crime was committed, but only because I have read a few Christie books and knew what to expect. I would like a book that has the clues rig
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Nov 15, 2011
Lynne
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Although I had enjoyed the BBC film of this Jane Marple story, with Jane played by Joan Hickson, I had never read the book. It is one to be considered on a course I am doing about women detective writers so I have just read it. It is perhaps even more intriguing a tale than the film was - I really liker the way that Miss Marple has to puzzle out just what the crime is that she has to investigate as well as the ways in which she solves it. The story ends with her having the huge fee she has ea
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Nov 27, 2011
Danielle
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Like venturing into another world... it's been so long since I read something written in the era of rambling, sedate sentences, and absolutely no attempt to create a story-world that engages your senses or gives you the illusion of falling through the page into another, vivid reality. What I liked about it, though, was the character of Miss Marple, who struck me as delicately spider-like - sharper than she let on, quite capable of deception in the name of Justice, a wonderful force for bringing
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May 07, 2011
Sammy
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At the behest of a recently-deceased millionaire acquaintance, Jane Marple joins a tour of Great Britain’s stately homes to track down a murderer – without knowing the identity of either killer or killed.
Christie’s other novels of the 1970s – Elephants Can Remember (the 'last' Poirot) and Postern of Fate (the last Tommy & Tuppence) – are insults to the detective form. "Nemesis" – the last Marple novel written - is, at least, a notch above those two wastes of ink, but it doe More...
Christie’s other novels of the 1970s – Elephants Can Remember (the 'last' Poirot) and Postern of Fate (the last Tommy & Tuppence) – are insults to the detective form. "Nemesis" – the last Marple novel written - is, at least, a notch above those two wastes of ink, but it doe More...
May 30, 2010
Goose
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One of the first Agatha Christie novels I read. How was I to know it was one of her last few published. I remember really liking it at the time, though I was admittedly confused at one point. Now that I've re-read it I can see some creakiness in the plot and it doesn't have the pacing of Christie novels of the 20s and 30s. Still, it's a good read and much better than Elephants Can Remember and Postern of Fate which come after it. My rating reflects both my memories of my original read and my rec
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May 07, 2010
Nikki
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All I ever seem to say about Agatha Christie books is that they're quite fun, now I've read a bundle of them. I suppose they're all the same, in some ways -- the clue-puzzle is always at the heart of it, not so much the characters. She has a nice touch with describing some characters and getting them just right, of course, and I really love the image of fluffy pink Miss Marple as Nemesis. And I liked Mr Rafiel and his posthumous quest: that was quite a nice plot touch. I got to like his characte
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Jan 29, 2012
Mazel
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Miss Marple est-elle l'incarnation de Némésis, la déesse grecque de la vengeance et de la justice ?
Cet étrange, ce passionant roman d'Agatha Christie n'est pas tout à fait comme les autres.
Son héroïne a vieilli, mais sa longue expérience de la vie lui permet, en partant de zéro, de résoudre un problème qui paraît insoluble.
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Ça démarre lentement, puisqu'on lit la moitié du roman sans véritablement connaître la nature du mystère à élucider. Serait More...
Cet étrange, ce passionant roman d'Agatha Christie n'est pas tout à fait comme les autres.
Son héroïne a vieilli, mais sa longue expérience de la vie lui permet, en partant de zéro, de résoudre un problème qui paraît insoluble.
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Ça démarre lentement, puisqu'on lit la moitié du roman sans véritablement connaître la nature du mystère à élucider. Serait More...
Jul 26, 2008
Karen
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Wow.
It's about the only word that you can use to describe this book. Part of the Harry Hole series, the only problem with any of these books is that they have been translated completely out of series order, so if you started with the first available here - The Devil's Star then the sequence of events in Harry's personal and professional life have been out of kilter. Doesn't matter. Just accept that stuff happened before that book, and read the rest of them, if you have to - althou More...
It's about the only word that you can use to describe this book. Part of the Harry Hole series, the only problem with any of these books is that they have been translated completely out of series order, so if you started with the first available here - The Devil's Star then the sequence of events in Harry's personal and professional life have been out of kilter. Doesn't matter. Just accept that stuff happened before that book, and read the rest of them, if you have to - althou More...
Jun 06, 2008
Rosa
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It always reminds me of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, as Agatha Christie takes her footsteps to show the combination of love and hatred.Clotilde has been depicted very well. Miss Marple thinks she's a woman of drama, Clytemnstra perhaps,So we can find out Agatha Christie was inspired by Greek drama.There are a lot of points of intertextuality in Christie's novels which tell us about her interests. The first time Miss Marple goes to the Manor House , she remebers The Three Sisters by Chekhov
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Feb 06, 2008
Robin
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I just finished reading this book. I put it off for the past few months but I began reading it again, and I just finished it during Spanish class, after I took my unit test.
This book wasn't as good as I thought it was, because this book didn't get to the mystery until it was more than halfway through the book. I thought that this wasn't really such a scary and suspenseful book as Agatha Christie's other book 12 little indians.
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This book wasn't as good as I thought it was, because this book didn't get to the mystery until it was more than halfway through the book. I thought that this wasn't really such a scary and suspenseful book as Agatha Christie's other book 12 little indians.
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Nov 27, 2010
Kate
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I reread this to compare it to the Miss Marple television productions. The second series was so far out the it was only marginally Agatha Christie. I don't see the point in having nuns rather that three sisters. It is as if the director or producer was making a negative statement about religion. I am not Catholic, but I think this was an unnecessary addition to the story.
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The Joan Hickson version was much closer the the original story. I also think it was a better picture of the time period More...
Sep 29, 2011
Andrew
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She may be frail, she may be forgetful, she may in her own words, "an old pussy," but Miss Jane Marple knows how serve up justice. Put into action through the will of an acquaintance from an earlier mystery, Miss Marple most not only find the killer, she even discover the murder to be investigated. Come later in the Queen of Crime's career, the narrative seems to be a bit tired at times. However, the denouement is a thriller, with Miss Marple announcing to a murderer in grand style, "
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Jan 03, 2009
Jae
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I love Miss Marple mysteries, and I think I've read all of them. Someone was talking about Miss Marple books recently, and I checked this out of the library because I knew I'd read it but couldn't remember it. As I started it I vaguely remembered parts but not enough to spoil the mystery. I really enjoyed it, though I had forgotten, or was young enough not to have noticed, an unpleasant undercurrent of "oh well, she was a slut, she deserved it" about one of the young female victims. St
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