Another Miss Marple adventure, and as expected it is
brilliant. This one has Miss Marple going undercover at a house that has an
institution for juvenile delinquents attached to it. So when murder happens there
are about two hundred obvious suspects.
This was one that I couldn’t remember the ending but it wasn’t
hard to work out who was behind it. There were still parts that I couldn’t work
out so that it kept it interesting, but there is something nice about the story
that it doesn’t matter whether you work it out or not. What I find more
interesting are the characters that Christie creates. You know that there will
always be one character that will work out too much and end up becoming a
victim. In this case it was a character I really liked so I was rather sad when
they met their end. I took comfort from the fact that I could know that they
weren’t the murderer.
It took me a little while to cotton on that the title didn’t
mean that the murder was done with mirrors. (Apologies if that is a plot
spoiler or if you are just appalled by how slow I can be.) Because a murder
actually done with mirrors would be tricky. But apparently it is to do with theatrical
stuff that is rather clever. And it was with the clever theatre stuff that the
murder was done.
If you want to know what on earth I am talking about you
should just read the book. And if you have read it, what did you think?
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