This is a brilliant miss Marple novel and it is one of my favourite Agatha Christies books. It isn't too complicated but it is not simple either.
It is about the leader of a financial industry ( Rex Fortescue ), who gets poisoned during work and dies shortly after. The obvious suspect is his wife but is this actually the case? Two more murders shortly follow and miss Marple is called in to help the investigation. She quickly discovers that the murders are following the nursery rhyme Sing A Song Of Sixpence.
The clues are, a connection with the blackbird mines and a family called the MacKenzie's, Rex's will, why the murderer chose to kill according to the rhyme. There are lots more clues aswell.
oh WOW this book was great just glad what i got it when i got the 1st book and book 3 to read one after the other i could not put them down and now i am waiting for the next one they are full of action and you get thinking that you are really living as cassie if you get in to your books like me and can get the pictures in you head as you read. you really get in to it a great book and left me wanting more not looking for all her books
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oh WOW this book was great just glad what i got it when i got the 1st book and book 3 to read one after the other i could not put them down and now i am waiting for the next one they are full of action and you get thinking that you are really living as cassie if you get in to your books like me and can get the pictures in you head as you read. you really get in to it a great book and left me wanting more not looking for all her books
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Torday's novel is readable enough, and impressively the story is carried along convincingly by the use of a less than traditional narrative, such as email excerpts, Hansard reports, transcripts of interviews etc. Surprisingly - it works, but the book is let down by the limpest and most abrupt of endings. It's almost like the author wasn't quite sure how to bring things to a neat ending and rushed it a bit. Nevertheless, entertaining enough, and no doubt it's already a film script in production somewhere.
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As is proved by the delightfully wicked set of stories mirroring in some respects Boccaccio's Decameron, which predated Chaucer, but which expand on bawdiness and give a fascinating insight into human nature: the very language is stripped of all ambiguity: for example, 'and sodeynly anon, Damyan gan pullen up hir smock and in he throng' is almost something out of a Jilly Cooper, although far more exotic!
And if you don't like the olde English, you can read the translation, which I think is extremely helpful if you're new to Chaucer or don't warm immediately to the lingo.
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The Heart of Darkness is about a man, a very accomplished man, erudite, educated, aspirational, filled with ideals, hope and ambition for himself and humanity. Yet, upon encountering the ordinariness in others, an ordinariness that is prejudiced, violent, vile, base and degenerate, he respondes with a violence and degeneracy that exceeds anything he had encountered from those ordinary others.
This is a story about ignorance, contempt and arrogance and its consequences. It is about the impotence of Kurtz to affect change upon this collective unconsciouness and his consequent omnipotent reaction. It is a narrative descriptive of the manner in which, without consciousness and insight, even the most accomplished may be corrupted and decend into the Heart of Darkness. ... Read More:
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The Heart of Darkness is about a man, a very accomplished man, erudite, educated, aspirational, filled with ideals, hope and ambition for himself and humanity. Yet, upon encountering the ordinariness in others, an ordinariness that is prejudiced, violent, vile, base and degenerate, he respondes with a violence and degeneracy that exceeds anything he had encountered from those ordinary others.
This is a story about ignorance, contempt and arrogance and its consequences. It is about the impotence of Kurtz to affect change upon this collective unconsciouness and his consequent omnipotent reaction. It is a narrative descriptive of the manner in which, without consciousness and insight, even the most accomplished may be corrupted and decend into the Heart of Darkness. ... Read More:
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The Heart of Darkness is about a man, a very accomplished man, erudite, educated, aspirational, filled with ideals, hope and ambition for himself and humanity. Yet, upon encountering the ordinariness in others, an ordinariness that is prejudiced, violent, vile, base and degenerate, he respondes with a violence and degeneracy that exceeds anything he had encountered from those ordinary others.
This is a story about ignorance, contempt and arrogance and its consequences. It is about the impotence of Kurtz to affect change upon this collective unconsciouness and his consequent omnipotent reaction. It is a narrative descriptive of the manner in which, without consciousness and insight, even the most accomplished may be corrupted and decend into the Heart of Darkness. ... Read More:
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This is an excellent read (or listen I should say) inspite of the strange cover design- a typical Agatha - a bit of a challenge to guess the murderer right to the end. No Piorot in it but very good nevertheless.
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This is an excellent read (or listen I should say) inspite of the strange cover design- a typical Agatha - a bit of a challenge to guess the murderer right to the end. No Piorot in it but very good nevertheless.
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