Nemesis (Miss Marple Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie
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Author: Agatha ChristieEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN: 0451200187
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: "One of My Names is Nemesis!"
Summary: 3 Stars
By the end of the book I was in a frenzy trying to figure out who did it and how Miss Marple was going to escape with her life! And this was me having read the fool thing many times back in the 1970s, you'd think I'd remember who committed the murders. Well, I did remember, but at one point Miss Marple rules my prime suspect out in so no uncertain terms. The trick is in trying to figure out how then, once suspect #1 has apparently been exonerated, how that person will eventually be implicated in the crime.
As it goes along, the book gets more and more surefooted and that irksome vagueness which so plagues the final Christies dissipates a bit. But I challenge you to tell me why Jason Rafiel made it so difficult to tell Miss Marple what exactly he wanted her to do, and also why, why, why the final murder had to happen? How did the killer know that the final victim had to be silenced, and what did the victim know that was so dangerous? If you missed the whole first half of the book you could still catch on pretty good, because every ten pages or so Miss Marple meets another authority figure and launches into the same exact story all over again about how she met Mr. Rafiel in the Caribbean with Esther Walters and how he cied and how he went her on a Coach Tour of English Homes and Gardens. You get the same account over and over again, adding to the feeling that a simple little novelette has been padded up the wazoo.
Lots of bitter reflections from Miss Marple on the real life cases that must have electrified Britain in the 1960s, the monsters Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, and on the other extreme the case of Mary Bell. Though Christie doesn't give the names of the killers, it's clear she's referring to these causes celebres, both involving children in diverse ways, odd for a book which is not ostensibly about children at all. I loved all the people on the coach tour and oh, how I wanted to be there among them, now that's living!
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