{"id":12884,"date":"2020-05-22T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:04:26","slug":"they-do-it-with-mirrors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12884","title":{"rendered":"They Do It With Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

They Do It With Mirrors<\/a><\/em> (1952) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Miss Marple)<\/p>\n

\"They<\/a>When asked by an old school friend, Miss Marple visits Stoneygates to check that everything is fine with her friend Carrie Louise.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe?\u201d exclaimed Miss Marple. \u201cWhy me?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you\u2019ve got a nose for that sort of thing. You always had. You\u2019ve always been a sweet innocent looking creature, Jane, and all the time underneath nothing has ever surprised you, you always believe the worst.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So off she goes, to visit a friend she hadn’t seen in decades.<\/p>\n

(W)hen one lives in the same country there is no need to arrange meetings with old friends. One assumes that, sooner or later, one will see them without contrivance. Only, if you move in different spheres, that does not happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is different about this story from earlier ones is that Miss Marple is dealing with her contemporaries rather than nieces and nephews and godchildren.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all fuss about me so,\u201d she said. \u201cThey rub it in that I\u2019m an old woman.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you don\u2019t feel like one.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t, Jane. In spite of all my aches and pains\u2014 and I\u2019ve got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don\u2019t believe it. It seems only a few months ago that we were at Florence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t one of my favorites–never has been. It’s not that there’s anything particularly wrong, it’s just not as good as some of the other stories.<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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