{"id":21457,"date":"2023-01-19T19:08:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21457"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:11:48","slug":"murder-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21457","title":{"rendered":"Murder is Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murder is Easy<\/a><\/em> (1939) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Superintendent Battle)<\/p>\n

\"Murder<\/a>Luke Fitzwilliam has retired and is headed back to England from the Mayang Straits, wondering what he’s doing to do with himself.<\/p>\n

An odd exchange about murder with an old woman on a train had been easily dismissed.<\/p>\n

what was I saying? Oh, yes, somebody said that there was a look\u2014 a special look that he gave anyone\u2014 and then very shortly afterwards that person would be taken ill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Until he reads she was killed almost immediately after getting off the train car they shared.<\/p>\n

Curiosity sends Luke to Wychwood, where he poses as the cousin of a local woman to see if there might be any truth that the spate of deaths were, in fact, murders.<\/p>\n

This book was published in 1939, which gives us bits like this.<\/p>\n

She wore no hat, and there was no net on her hair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although this isn’t a Miss Marple story, there are always the little bits I adore.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh,\u201d said Mrs. Pierce. \u201cI\u2019m never one to gossip.\u201d This was unexpected but promising. <\/p>\n

Luke pricked up his ears and waited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though my favorites are the ones that could easily be heard today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always cheering,\u201d said Luke, \u201cto hear someone speak well of the marriage state. Especially in these days of easy divorce.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cPah!\u201d said the major. \u201cYoung people make me sick. No stamina\u2014 no endurance. They can\u2019t stand anything. No fortitude!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do think nowadays there is so much waste\u2014 and nobody saves or thinks of the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PLUS we get the forerunner of the McMansion.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, they tried to put it over on me here! Carry out the original spirit of the building. No, I said, I\u2019m going to live in the place, and I want something to show for my money! When one architect wouldn\u2019t do what I wanted I sacked him and got another.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is another I don’t particularly remember reading, even though I must have at some point.<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow<\/p>\n

Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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