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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Potrait of a Murder or Murder in Retrospect or Five Little Pigs



Carla Lemarchant was the daughter of Amyas Crale and Caroline Crale. Carla was only five years of age when her mother Caroline Crale was tried for murdering her husband.

After sixteen years Carla asked Poi rot to clear her mother name, because before Caroline's death in prison she wrote a letter to her daughter telling that she not murdered her husband. Poi rot couldn't refuse Carla and found the murderer of Amyas Crale.

Monday, January 29, 2007

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd




The murder of Roger Ackroyd is considered as the masterpiece of Agatha Christie. It is one of my favourite A C's novels because it is impossible to find a clue, which can indicate the murderer in this novel. Very shrewdly and efficiently she wrote the narration. According to me not only the plot is good in this novel but also the writing is excellent.

M. Hercule Poirot went to leave in the village named King's Abbot and was growing vegetable marrows after retiring from his job.

A Mrs. Ferrars was died on the night of the 16th-17th September and his lover Mr. Roger Ackroyd was murdered on the very next day after the dinner by a Tunis dagger, which was gifted him from his friend Mojor Blunt.

No one suspected the killer until Flora Ackroyd, the niece of the murdered called M. Hercule Poirot to solve this case.

The Secret of Chimneys



Herzoslovakia is one of the unimportant Balkan states; many people never heard the name of it. Last King of Herzoslovakia, Nicholas 4 and queen Veraga were assassinated by the revolutionists, since then it is a Republic.

But the name of Count Stylptitch was well known. He was considered as The Grand Old Man of the Balkans.

After the death of Count Stylptitch his memoirs became a headache to many organizations and governments.

Anthony Cade was in Africa in the time of Count Stylptitch's death, but somehow he became the centerpiece of an international conspiracy, which brought him to Chimneys, the great country estate, where an amazing secret was revealed.