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‘The most macabre and eerie Christie I have read for a long time.’
Sunday Express
‘All beautifully plotted in the way that Mrs Christie is famous for. The title is from Macbeth: “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Wicked indeed!’
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‘Ladies disappearing from homes of rest, sinister empty houses, hints of gang-leaders mixed with black magic – mystery at the usual high Christie level.’
Evening Standard
‘Devised with fiendish ingenuity in the classic Christie cast.’
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'The most macabre and eerie Christie I have read for a long time.' Sunday Express 'All beautifully plotted in the way that Mrs Christie is famous for. The title is from Macbeth: "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." Wicked indeed!' Best Sellers 'Ladies disappearing from homes of rest, sinister empty houses, hints of gang-leaders mixed with black magic -- mystery at the usual high Christie level.' Evening Standard 'Devised with fiendish ingenuity in the classic Christie cast.' Illustrated London News
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Once again Agatha Christie has brought back her amteur detectives, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, on a haunting case that has shone in the middle of her 72 novels. While visiting an aunt in a nursing home, Tuppence meets an eccentric old lady, who utters the phrase: "Was it your poor child?" This simple line sends Tommy and Tuppence on a new adventure, and become entangled in murders long forgotten. One inters\esting thing I picked up was, in the Agatha Christie "Sleeping Murder" there is a breif part of the book that involves a nursing home, where an old lady says "Was it your poor child?" The same happens in "The Pale Horse". Must be just one of those things.... Anyway, this is a must read for any Christie fan, but I wouldn't recommend starting out on this one (Even though I did!), it is set in the sixties, has a different kind of murder to the more common Christie, and is altogether quite unlike any other christie. A Great book, Five stars.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I came accross "The Secred Adversary" in my 20's and fell for Tommy and Tuppence. They were a breath of fresh air in the serious and mysterious world of detecting. Even now, many years later their characters are delightful.
One of the refreshing things about Tommy and Tuppence is that we get to follow them through life. Unlike Miss Marple and to a certain extent Hercule Poirot, their characters follow the time line of the books. In this one, both are in their 60's. Their children are married off and live their own lives. Since "N or M" Tommy and Tuppence have been away from the world of crime (that is not counting Tommy's career within the Intelligence world).
With the stated visit to Tommy's grouchy old aunt, Ada, things that changes. Tuppence becomes obsessed with the statement of Mrs. Lancaster about "something behind the fireplace". When Tommy's aunt dies; and they clear out her stuff from the retirement home, Tuppence discovers that Mrs. Lancaster has been removed to another home by the mysterious Mrs. Jones. In addition she finds out that Mrs. Lancaster has left Tommy's aunt a picture of a house that Tuppence once saw on a train ride, and things take off and Tuppence sets out to discover the mystery behind Mrs. Lancaster's disappearance and the mysterious country home.
This book is delightful and I recommend it highly to any and all.
One of the refreshing things about Tommy and Tuppence is that we get to follow them through life. Unlike Miss Marple and to a certain extent Hercule Poirot, their characters follow the time line of the books. In this one, both are in their 60's. Their children are married off and live their own lives. Since "N or M" Tommy and Tuppence have been away from the world of crime (that is not counting Tommy's career within the Intelligence world).
With the stated visit to Tommy's grouchy old aunt, Ada, things that changes. Tuppence becomes obsessed with the statement of Mrs. Lancaster about "something behind the fireplace". When Tommy's aunt dies; and they clear out her stuff from the retirement home, Tuppence discovers that Mrs. Lancaster has been removed to another home by the mysterious Mrs. Jones. In addition she finds out that Mrs. Lancaster has left Tommy's aunt a picture of a house that Tuppence once saw on a train ride, and things take off and Tuppence sets out to discover the mystery behind Mrs. Lancaster's disappearance and the mysterious country home.
This book is delightful and I recommend it highly to any and all.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I read this book expecting Christie's usual gentle but entertaining format.How wrong I was,I was genuinely chilled from the start.Hints of child murders,old ladies and poison, witches in the woods and strange cottages,its fabulously creepy,in fact,at one point, just as I was chilled to the bone and frozen with fear, at a particularly creepy description my nose started bleeding on to the book,I have never jumped with fright as much as I did that night! It may have been a coincidence,but what timing. Honestly folks,you wouldn't believe that nice Ms Christie could come up with anything macabre as this.One of my top 5 Christie's of all time.
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More 'Murder Mystery' than 'Whodunit'
I much preferred it to Christie's usual whodunit plot of 'Mr Plum in the dining room with the lead piping'
Altogether an excellent 'murder mystery' and highy recomended-... Read more
Altogether an excellent 'murder mystery' and highy recomended-... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dickie III
One of the better Tommy and Tuppence novels.
There is a kind of horrible sense of foreboding about this book which goes from the very beginning to the shocking end. Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2001 by W. O'NEILL
Another fantastic mystery for Tommy & Tuppence to solve
I first read about Tommy & Tuppence in Partners in Crime and fell immediately in love with their characters - its Agatha at her best. Read more
Published on 11 May 2000
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