MIss Marple Month! The Case of the Perfect Maid

[Mark Pghfan]

Here is our third of four stories for the month, The Case of the Perfect Maid. Here, Miss M's maid Edna is worried about her friend Gladys, who has been fired from her position at the Misses Skinner's, new residents of St. Mary Mead. A brooch was lost (and surprisingly found again) and then a plate got broken. To replace Gladys, there came a perfect paragon, Mary Higgins, who does everything better than Gladys and at lower wages! Miss M suspects a problem, though, and when a grand robbery occurs in the building of flats where the sisters live, things happen!

By the way, toward the end, Miss M refers to a "back switch". Any idea of what that is?

[Nicole]

I am really enjoying the fact that this month I can sit down on the sofa for 15 minutes on a Sunday afternoon and read our story to discuss! I have no idea what a back switch is, but I loved this line "and no doubt in league with a clever post and rails or fence or whatever you call it." :D

[Tina]

Poor Gladys gets short end of AC stick in Miss Marples. lol

The gal who plays her in Hickson Marples I believe also appears in movie titled Little Voice (as do faves: Phillip Jackson, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor, Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent). What a cast in this little but fine film. Love this flick. Anyone see it?

[Mark Pghfan]

I have seen it. Jane Horrocks is amazing!

[Tina]

Mark Pghfan wrote: "I have seen it. Jane Horrocks is amazing!"

Yes, she did an awesome job with her performance in the theater singing scene(s).

It was a sweet little movie, Pghfan. I liked it a lot. Great cast, fine acting. And LOL on Brenda B and Michael Caine's performances. They were a hoot.

[Tina]

MM didn't appear to think much of Gladdie in this story unlike film version where MM seems to feel for her in spite of her silliness.

"Though having no particular liking for the bouncing, self-opinionated Gladys..."

For myself, I didn't take Gladys as self-opinionated. I thought her more demure when it came to even having opinions.

[Mark Pghfan]

Again, this is very early Christie, and her idea of Gladys probably changed. Or maybe it was just a different Gladys?

[Tina]

Mark Pghfan wrote: "Again, this is very early Christie, and her idea of Gladys probably changed. Or maybe it was just a different Gladys?"

Maybe it was a different Marple, Pghfan. Sounds more like Rutherford than Hickson. lol

[PugMom]

This was a clever story!! I also enjoy reading these stories in one sitting. Makes me feel very accomplished lol