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They Do It With Mirrors
They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #5)
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John Frankham
Sep 26, 2017 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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Cindy
Nov 03, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Dan Hawks
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