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pebblerocker) wrote2014-05-09 02:07 pm
pebblerocker) wrote2014-05-09 02:07 pm
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If you ask me, they all did it
I discovered an Agatha Christie book I'd never read and I'm enjoying it so much. I'm at the part where the second murder has just happened and the detective has all the information but it's in a jumble of red herrings, and everyone is acting suspiciously but PROBABLY just because they're bartering fresh butter and don't want to talk to the police about their evasion of the post-war rationing, and I haven't a CLUE who did what and why. This is my favourite part of the murder mystery experience and I sort of want to stop here or read just one paragraph a day and stay deliciously tantalised forever.
Puzzling and puzzling all day at work about it: maybe the young distant cousins of the inheritor of the large fortune are impostors, planning to knock her off to get her money. After all, she hasn't seen them since they were infants... but on the other hand, maybe it's that they can't identify HER, and she's not who she claims to be. And why did all the photos of the rich man's long-lost estranged sister disappear from the photo album? Is it because she's living in the village, posing as one of the perfectly ordinary but slightly suspicious residents who were all at the party when the shooting occurred? Or is it because someone wants the detective to THINK the sister is here, but be unable to confirm it with a photo, and waste his time looking in the wrong places while they make their next move? And what about the retired Colonel's missing revolver?
My ebook copy seems to have had a few OCR glitches creep in. Most obviously, the title is down as "A Murder is Announces" even though it's "Announced" on the cover image. There was a bit of misplaced punctuation which made it look as if someone's husband's name was Sonia. The best mistake, repeated twice, was when the masked man entered the drawing room "nourishing a revolver".
Puzzling and puzzling all day at work about it: maybe the young distant cousins of the inheritor of the large fortune are impostors, planning to knock her off to get her money. After all, she hasn't seen them since they were infants... but on the other hand, maybe it's that they can't identify HER, and she's not who she claims to be. And why did all the photos of the rich man's long-lost estranged sister disappear from the photo album? Is it because she's living in the village, posing as one of the perfectly ordinary but slightly suspicious residents who were all at the party when the shooting occurred? Or is it because someone wants the detective to THINK the sister is here, but be unable to confirm it with a photo, and waste his time looking in the wrong places while they make their next move? And what about the retired Colonel's missing revolver?
My ebook copy seems to have had a few OCR glitches creep in. Most obviously, the title is down as "A Murder is Announces" even though it's "Announced" on the cover image. There was a bit of misplaced punctuation which made it look as if someone's husband's name was Sonia. The best mistake, repeated twice, was when the masked man entered the drawing room "nourishing a revolver".