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Friday, December 29, 2006

Murder is Easy



"No, no, my dear boy, that's where you wrong. It's very easy to kill-so long as anyone suspects you. And you see, the person in question is just the last person any one would suspect!"

Returning to England after many years, Luke Fitzwilliam mate with Miss Pinkerton of Wychwood-under-Ashe. She was going to Scotland Yard because there were wholesale murders in her village, and she suspected a definite person to be responsible for those murders.

Miss Pinkerton was killed in the way to Scotland Yard.

Luke Fitzwilliam realized that the suspicion of Miss Pinkerton was right, otherwise she would not get killed.

Luke went to Wychwood-under-Ashe to unmask the murderer.

He found that murder was, after all, really easy !!!

Nemesis




'Elizabeth Temple stared at the peonies for some minutes. When she spoke she uttered one word. It echoed like the tone of a deep bell- so much so that it was startling.

"Love!" she said.

Miss Marple queried the word sharply. "Love?"

"One of the most frightening words there is in the world, "said Elizabeth Temple.

Again her voice was bitter and tragic.

"Love...."

Miss Marple will find out, why love is so frightening.

One of the best psychological crime novels of A C...'

Novels of Miss Jane Marple

* The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
* The Body in the Library (1942)
* The Moving Finger (1943)
* A Murder is Announced (1950)
* They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder With Mirrors (1952)
* A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
* 4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! (1957)
* The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, or The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
* A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
* At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
* Nemesis (1971)
* Sleeping Murder (written around 1940, published 1976)

A Pocketful of Rye



"Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing.
Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?

The king was in his counting house, counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey,
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When there came a dickey bird and nipped off her nose."

A series of murder had taken place in Fortescue family, simulating the above-mentioned nursery rhyme.

Miss Marple will solve the case.