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Jesse
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It’s a fun setup. The Vicar as a narrator understandably has shades of Roger Ackroyd about it but he is a more fun character in his sort of jovial cynicism and his playful relationship with his much younger wife. Redding is set up as the obvious first and primary suspect, but there’s no shortage of potential perpetrators. There’s always the chance that the Colonel was murdered in a case of mistaken identity…
— Nov 27, 2025 08:38PM
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Jesse
is on page 250 of 304
Well, Miss Marple isn’t so much of a force of nature in this novel, but I’m pretty excited to see how she wraps up this case!
— Nov 29, 2025 08:42PM
Jesse
is on page 200 of 304
As a classic Agatha Christie novel, this is a great Dramady. Someone is dead, there are a lot of sitcom-ish events going on, there’s a lot of intrigue, and the Vicar is the perfect narrator, canting the story just the right amount with his dry, jaded humor.
I am inclined to believe that Lettice Protheroe murdered her father, with Dennis making the crank call to establish her alibi.
— Nov 29, 2025 07:52PM
I am inclined to believe that Lettice Protheroe murdered her father, with Dennis making the crank call to establish her alibi.
Jesse
is on page 150 of 304
Now that I have so many Christie books under my belt I can only imagine that no one is proven innocent until the final reveal. Like Marple talking about intuition, I am seeing echoes of Roger Ackroyd as well as Death on the Nile. The only thing I’m pretty certain of is that Lestrange is the Colonel’s first wife. Marple herself is a conspicuously irregularly appearing character.
— Nov 28, 2025 09:35PM
Jesse
is on page 100 of 304
This book rests on a bunch of initial assumptions with Miss Marple, by way of the vicar, directing the actions of the police who are out of their element in the village. As always, there are a ton of human elements bumping up against each other, and once we have—as far as we know—the sympathetic confession pair out of the way, we’re out to sea as to who the most likely suspect is.
— Nov 28, 2025 06:36AM
