{"id":24750,"date":"2025-07-30T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24750"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:05:39","slug":"nemesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24750","title":{"rendered":"Nemesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nemesis<\/em> (1971) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Miss Marple #12)<\/p>\n

\"Nemesis\"<\/p>\n

As she woke again, her first impression was that which so often follows dreams, a belief that the dream in question had solved everything. \u201cOf course,\u201d she thought, \u201cof course!\u201d His eyebrows were false and that solved the whole thing. He was the criminal. <\/p>\n

Sadly, it came to her that nothing was solved. Professor Wanstead\u2019s eyebrows coming off was of no help at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2019t 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I don\u2019t know that I should know if I had seen it,\u201d said Emlyn Price. \u201cI don\u2019t always know red from green.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, you\u2019re a bit colour-blind, aren\u2019t you,\u201d said Joanna.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, don\u2019t go about saying I\u2019m colour-blind. I don\u2019t like it. Puts people off in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of those sex-link things,\u201d she added, with an air of erudition. \u201cYou know, it passes through the female and comes out in the male.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou make it sound as though it was measles.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Nemesis\"<\/p>\n

And for your horror, this cover:<\/p>\n

I mean…<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: 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<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow<\/p>\n

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

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. \u201cOf course,\u201d she thought, \u201cof course!\u201d His eyebrows were false and that solved the whole thing. He was the criminal. 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