Synopsis from Amazon:
Neville Strange, his wives (past and present), friends, and family converge for a late summer weekend. When two seemingly unrelated murders occur, it's up to Superintendent Battle to go back twenty years to uncover the truth.
My rating: 4 stars
Publication information:
- 160 pp.
- 8vo.
- Bound in original red cloth
- Title stamped in black on spine
- London: Crime Club / Collins
- 1944
5 comments:
I've read so many books written by her that they have begun to bore me a little... The carecters are all alike... The only Christie's book I've read that sort of breaks the routine is "As dez figuras negras" -in portuguese; I don't know what the original title is, something like the ten dark figures? I've like it very much... Shows a darker side of their novelles :D
Please forgive my weird english, as I've said, I'm portuguese...
@Brekas: No problem about the English. First, THANKS SO MUCH for linking to my blog on your site!!! Secondly, I agree that a lot of Christie's characters are very similar. I'll go through a span of (re)reading three or four books by her and then I become rather tired by her characters and have to take a break. But, on average, her books are much better both in plot and writing than a lot of the mysteries written today.
The English title of "As dez figuras negras" has an interesting story. The original title was "Ten Little [N-word which is very offensive]" but was changed to "Ten Little Indians" in the English versions later and was published originally as "And Then There Were None" in the US.
Thanks again for checking out the blog! I hope you find it somewhat interesting.
Hi,
i agree too about the similarity of characters but that exactly what she intends to prove, as say Mis marple. By the way, we cans say the same about lots of "series" writers, so has Mary Higgings Clark for exemple.
So she intends to prove everybody is the same? I don't think so... I just think she attached herself to the type of writting she was good at, and did'nt try do write something new. (does that sentence make any sense?)
Anyway, it's just my opinion
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