A Murder Is Announced

A Murder Is Announced (1950) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple, #5)

“I do wish you wouldn’t read that horrid paper, Edmund. Mrs. Finch doesn’t like it at all.”

“I don’t see what my political views have to do with Mrs. Finch.”

“And it isn’t,” pursued Mrs. Swettenham, “as though you were a worker. You don’t do any work at all.”

“That’s not in the least true,” said Edmund indignantly. “I’m writing a book.”

“You know the Fuel Office won’t even let us have the little bit that’s due to us each week—not unless we can say definitely that we haven’t got any other means of cooking.”

“I suppose there was once heaps of coke and coal for everybody?” said Julia with the interest of one hearing about an unknown country.

“Yes, and cheap, too.”

“And anyone could go and buy as much as they wanted, without filling in anything, and there wasn’t any shortage? There was lots of it there?”

“All kinds and qualities—and not all stones and slates like what we get nowadays.”

“It must have been a wonderful world,” said Julia, with awe in her voice.

Characters: Miss Marple, Letitia Blacklock, Dora Bunny Bunner, Phillipa Haymes, Patrick Simmons, Julia Simmons, Colonel Archie Esterbrook, Mrs. Laura Easterbrook, Mrs. Finch, Mitzi, Chief Constable George Rydesdale, Inspector Dermot Craddock, Constable Legg, Sergeant Fletcher, Sir Henry Clithering, Mrs. Swettenham, Hinch Miss Hinchcliffe, Miss Amy Murgatroyd, Myrna Harris, Chief Constable George Rydesdale, Belle Goedler, Rudi Scherz, Rev Julian Harmon, Bunch Mrs. Diana Harmon, Mrs. Huggins, Mrs. Lucas, Randall Goedler, Belle Goedler, Sonia Goedler Stamfordis, Mrs. Butt

Publisher: William Morrow

Rating: 9/10

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