Nemesis

Nemesis (1971) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #12)

As she woke again, her first impression was that which so often follows dreams, a belief that the dream in question had solved everything. “Of course,” she thought, “of course!” His eyebrows were false and that solved the whole thing. He was the criminal.

Sadly, it came to her that nothing was solved. Professor Wanstead’s eyebrows coming off was of no help at all.

if I were ever producing this splendid play I would make the three witches quite different. I would have them three ordinary, normal old women. Old Scottish women. They wouldn’t dance or caper. They would look at each other rather slyly and you would feel a sort of menace just behind the ordinariness of them.

“I don’t know that I should know if I had seen it,” said Emlyn Price. “I don’t always know red from green.”

“No, you’re a bit colour-blind, aren’t you,” said Joanna.

…

“Well, don’t go about saying I’m colour-blind. I don’t like it. Puts people off in some way.”

…

“It’s one of those sex-link things,” she added, with an air of erudition. “You know, it passes through the female and comes out in the male.”

“You make it sound as though it was measles.”

And for your horror, this cover:

I mean…

Characters: Mr. Jason Rafiel, Miss Jane Marple, Esther Walters/ Anderson, Michael Rafiel, Verity Hunt, Archbishop Brabazon, Elizabeth Temple, Miss Cooke, Mr. Richard Jameson, Miss Lumley, Miss Bentham, Mr. Casper, Miss Cooke, Miss Barrow, Mrs. Riseley-Porter, Miss Joanna Crawford, Colonel and Mrs. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Butler, Lavinia Glynne, Clotilde Bradbury-Scott, Anthea Bradbury-Scott, Miss Barrow, Professor Wanstead, Emlyn Price, Nora Broad, Inspector Douglas, Cherry, Mr. Broadribb, Mr. Schuster, Joan Prescott, Mrs. Sandbourne

Publisher: William Morrow

Rating: 7/10

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