From the Publisher
This is the best of the novels starring Christie’s Miss Marple.” — New York Times
“A model of complex skulduggery.” — New Yorker
“Ingenious.” — Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Agatha Christie was the absolute master of misdirection. No matter how logical we think we’re being when we read her, she always manages to send us swimming after her red herrings while ignoring that huge whale in the corner of the tank.” — Margaret Maron, award-winning author of the Deborah Knott Mysteries
New Yorker
A model of complex skulduggery.
Times Literary Supplement (London)
Ingenious.
New York Times
This is the best of the novels starring Christie’s Miss Marple.
Margaret Maron
Agatha Christie was the absolute master of misdirection. No matter how logical we think we’re being when we read her, she always manages to send us swimming after her red herrings while ignoring that huge whale in the corner of the tank.
New Yorker
A model of complex skulduggery.
AUG/SEP 07 - AudioFile
A Miss Marple mystery brings out the best in Rosalind Ayres. She can be male or female to such a degree that one forgets who’s narrating. Yewtree Lodge is full of unsavory types, any one of whom could have murdered business tycoon Rex Fortescue. When two more guests are murdered, Miss Marple gets involved because one of the victims, Gladys Martin, was once her maid. Ayres is wonderful with all her voices—from Miss Ramsbottom, the elderly aunt upstairs, to Mary Dove, the overly composed housekeeper. Her best impersonation is Gladys, adenoidal and pathetic, the memorable voice of the innocent led astray by evil. B.H.B. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
