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They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #5)

Agatha Christie

Start date: December 1, 2025

Finish date: December 31, 2025

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Oct 09, 2017 Leslie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries, audiobooks

While I enjoyed this entry in the Miss Marple series, it was just "good" not great as some of Christie's are. Given Miss Marple's oft pronounced maxim of never believe anything anyone says without confirmation, she seemed (view spoiler).

Joan Hickson's narration was unfortunately spoiled for me by the poor shape of the CDs I borrowed from the library. Perhaps if that hadn't been the case, I might have gone up to 4 ...more

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Sep 26, 2017 John Frankham rated it liked it

Shelves: miss-marple-challenge, crime-detective

Hard to judge this when I have seen the BBC Joan Hickson version a few times. Maybe 3* is a little low, but Miss Marple is, for the most part, no different from the neutral protagonists in many of Christie's stand alone works. Well-plotted but too many stock characters, and not enough to care about.

The GR blurb (pretty poor):

'Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a yo ...more

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Jan 03, 2014 Rosario rated it liked it

Miss Marple visits an old friend, Carrie Louise Martin, at the request of her friend's sister, who thinks something is wrong and Miss Marple is the only one who can figure out what. Carrie Louise's current husband, Lewis (she's had several, and accumulated a variety of relatives, many of whom are living with her as well), has turned their house, a large Victorian mansion, into a institution to rehabilitate "young delinquents".

It all seems like a recipe for trouble, everyone seems to think, and ...more

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