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Can the person with the initials CG please send me their email address so I can send them the book? Thanks!
A murder is announced in the local paper of a small village, to take place at Little Paddocks, the large home of Miss Leticia Blackwood. Locals assume it's a murder game and show up; Letitia is baffled but knows people will show up, and prepares for an unexpected party. The lights go out, everyone screams happily, there's a gunshot, and the lights come up on the very real corpse of a man nobody knows...
This is set after WWII, when rationing and black market food trading is still going on, and one of the consequences of increased social and literal mobility is that there's a lot more new people and being able to know people from birth to death is no longer such a thing. As a result, it becomes much harder to tell if people really are who they say they are.
This is one of my favorite Christies. It has a clever but solvable mystery, a fun cast of characters including a sympathetic lesbian couple, some heartbreaking tragedy, an interesting setting, and a fun premise.
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Christie Scale: MEDIUM levels of stuff about refugees, but the refugee character, while caricatured, is heroic (in a way that involves taking advantage of stereotypes about refugees) and gets a happy ending.
This is set after WWII, when rationing and black market food trading is still going on, and one of the consequences of increased social and literal mobility is that there's a lot more new people and being able to know people from birth to death is no longer such a thing. As a result, it becomes much harder to tell if people really are who they say they are.
This is one of my favorite Christies. It has a clever but solvable mystery, a fun cast of characters including a sympathetic lesbian couple, some heartbreaking tragedy, an interesting setting, and a fun premise.
( Read more... )
Christie Scale: MEDIUM levels of stuff about refugees, but the refugee character, while caricatured, is heroic (in a way that involves taking advantage of stereotypes about refugees) and gets a happy ending.
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