{"id":12881,"date":"2020-05-21T17:18:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12881"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:05:41","slug":"a-murder-is-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12881","title":{"rendered":"A Murder Is Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Murder Is Announced<\/a><\/em> (1950) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Miss Marple)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>In Chipping Cleghorn, the local paper sports an unexpected advertisement:<\/p>\n

‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the bits I found particularly amusing was where people slowly show up for the announced murder–but claim to have randomly shown up for other reasons, and all every single couple that arrives comments of the chrysanthemums and that the central heat has been turned on. It’s rather delightful, because you can easily imagine yourself in that situation, hearing the same thing over and over.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got your central heating on,\u201d said Miss Hinchcliffe. She said it accusingly. \u201cVery early.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe house gets so damp this time of year,\u201d said Miss Blacklock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although this was written after WWII, there are still some things left over, which I find fascinating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThursday is the day one of the farms round here makes butter. They let anybody they like have a bit. It\u2019s usually Miss Hinchcliffe who collects it. She\u2019s very much in with all the farmers\u2014 because of her pigs, I think. But it\u2019s all a bit hush hush, you know, a kind of local scheme of barter. One person gets butter, and sends along cucumbers, or something like that\u2014 and a little something when a pig\u2019s killed. And now and then an animal has an accident and has to be destroyed. Oh, you know the sort of thing. Only one can\u2019t, very well, say it right out to the Police. Because I suppose quite a lot of this barter is illegal\u2014 only nobody really knows because it\u2019s all so complicated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d remembered bits and pieces of this story, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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