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Agatha Christie

Start date: June 1, 2017

Finish date: June 30, 2017

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* Sept 25: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) by Agatha Christie
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May 27, 2017 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Elspeth McGillicuddy is on her way by train to visit her old friend Miss Marple. The train she is on runs side by side for a moment with another train and Elspeth sees a man with his back to her strangling a woman in a fur coat. She reports it to the ticket collector and to the police who seem not to be too interested though they do check it out and cannot find a body. Both Elspeth and Miss Marple are convinced she did see the murder and Miss Marple decides to do some investigating herself and t ...more

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Nov 05, 2017 Sandy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: xmiss-marple-challenge-2017

Mrs. McGillicuddy saw a murder from her train window but there is no other evidence or a body and no one believes her. She turns to her friend Miss Jane Marple to help her.

I love Miss Marple and how she is always a step ahead of everyone else in figuring out the crime. There are lots of red herrings and plot twists. Fun read.

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May 28, 2020 Vanessa rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 1950s, cozy

I suspect that this might end up being my least favorite Agatha Christie novel. While the killer is unusually easy to guess, we do not get many clues. The clues we do get are too obscure to make the mystery interesting. While the death count is pretty high, the characters do not seem all that concerned or upset. It is pretty typical in these kinds of novels to have the victims be people that no one was very fond of or would miss, but the characters here were not even emotional about the possibil ...more

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Apr 04, 2018 Pranit rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: miss-marple

This is probably the book because of which I came to know about AC’s Miss Marple. I was meaning to start this novel this since almost half a decade now. I felt nice that finally I finished this one. Once again, it was in the form of BBC Radio Audiobook. The whole story is so peculiar that no-one really knows who is murdered till at least halfway through the story. But eventually, Miss Marple with her feminine touch figures out who the murderer is. I was too hopeful for the story to be something ...more

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