{"id":24731,"date":"2025-07-04T18:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24731"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:06:24","slug":"the-mirror-crackd-from-side-to-side-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24731","title":{"rendered":"The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side<\/em> (1962) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Miss Marple, #9)<\/p>\n

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The people, too, looked unreal. The trousered young women, the rather sinister-looking young men and boys, the exuberant bosoms of the fifteen-year-old girls. Miss Marple couldn\u2019t help thinking that it all looked terribly depraved.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Mothers came out on doorsteps calling to their children who, as usual, were busy doing all the things they had been told not to do. Children, Miss Marple reflected gratefully, never changed. And presently she began to smile, and noted down in her mind her usual series of recognitions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even Mr. Sampson, the oldest man in St. Mary Mead, boasting proudly of being ninety-six though his relations insisted firmly that he was only eighty-six, had staggered along supporting his rheumatic legs with a stick, to see this excitement. He gave it his highest praise: \u201cAh, there\u2019ll be a lot of wickedness here, I don\u2019t doubt. Naked men and women drinking and smoking what they call in the papers them reefers. There\u2019ll be all that, I expect. Ah yes,\u201d said Mr. Sampson with enormous pleasure, \u201cthere\u2019ll be a lot of wickedness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cChildren feel things, you know,\u201d said Miss Marple, nodding her head. \u201cThey feel things more than the people around them ever imagine. The sense of hurt, of being rejected, of not belonging. It\u2019s a thing that you don\u2019t get over just because of advantages.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Miss Marple, Marina Gregg, Jason Rudd, Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock, Dr. Haydock, Dr. Sandford, Dolly Bantry, Lola Brewster, Ardwyck Fenn, Giuseppe, Ella Zielinsky, Dr. Maurice Gilchrist, Hailey Preston, Margot Bence, Detective-Sergeant William Tiddler, Councillor Allcock and Mrs. Allcock, Cherry Baker, Jim Baker, Gladys Dixon, Heather Badcock, Arthur Badcock, Laycock, Miss Knight, Colonel and Mrs. Clittering, Mrs Mary Bain, Lynette Brown<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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