![]() ![]() ![]() When her new husband joins her, they set about investigating the 18 year-old case with the help of Miss Marple, who just happens to be a friend of a friend. ![]() The plot concerns a young bride returning to England and buying a house that it later transpires that she had lived in briefly as a young girl, and recalls a repressed memory of seeing her stepmother being strangled, possibly by her father, but (conveniently) she doesn’t see the murderer’s face. It took about half a page before the entire plot re-established itself in my memory, but luckily this wasn’t the case with Sleeping Murder. I remember re-reading A Murder is Announced for the second time about ten years after the first. There’s always the risk that the plot details come screaming back to you. Invariably that means ones that I was less than enamoured by the first time round, but having read some of them when I was very young, tastes and opinions change. Well, writing my top five Marples and Poirots awoke my old fondness for Dame Agatha’s work, so after that one, I went on Abebooks and picked out a few other cheap ones that I couldn’t remember much about. I said I wasn’t going to review any Agatha Christie’s in full in an earlier post, and then almost immediately broke that resolution with The Hollow. ![]()
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