Play Book Tag discussion

Miss Marple visits a friend from school, Carrie Lou, after Carrie Lou's sister Ruth mentions how worried she is after sensing something evil afoot after her last visit. Carrie Lou is married to an idealist reformer overseeing an endowed charitable foundation, and is surrounded by various relations in a great mansion that shares grounds with the reformatory run by the foundation. Soon after arriving a murder or two occurs which Jane assists the local officials in solving. This was a far less complex plot than many of Christie's best but no less enjoyable for that. (view spoiler)[ From the moment of Miss Marple's arrival, I felt we were watching a staged production and that what was happening was all too easy to see through. (hide spoiler)] Christie's skill as a playwright is front and center in this one, especially that climactic ending.