by Agatha Christie  first published in 1942  Miss Marple mystery

Without warning, anonymous letters appeared everywhere in the quiet little town of Lymstock. Vicious letters that were the product of a mind twisted with hate. Ruthless, sinister letters that cleverly concealed the deadly scheme of a brilliant murderer…

 

 

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I have a 1964 Dell paperback copy of this one. I love the feel of those old smaller paperbacks in my hand! This was a really good read, which Christie isn’t? Miss Marple doesn’t show up until page 135 though. She really has a background role in this one. Jerry Burton and local Inspector Nash do most of the detecting in this and Miss Marple shows up at the end to tie everything together for them. Jerry and his sister Joanna have rented a little house, Little Furze, for Jerry to recover from an accident in the country. Full of those wonderful Christie characters. Not once did I consider the character who turned out to be the dastardly killer. There are lots of good suspects!

For a minute or two I didn’t know whether I was asleep or awake. Then my brain cleared, and I realized I was in the drawing room of Little Furze and that Mrs. Dane Calthrop had just come through the window and was standing in front of me saying with nervous violence: “It has got to be stopped, I tell you.”………. And she went out of the window again.

I love that Agatha Christie is always having people coming in and out of windows! I’d love to have a long window that opens out into the ‘garden’ that we could step in and out of, but living in the south we’ed get eaten alive by mosquitos and gnats and little black flies and who knows what else!

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This book fulfills the How category (at least two deaths with different means) in the Gold Era for Just the Facts M’am over @ My Reader’s Block.