The only characters of Christie to do so within real-time of the books being published I learn. This is only the second Tommy and Tuppence that I have read and I have to confess they are a funny pair and in this book, they have aged. Of course Tuppence’s task is a simple one, to return a picture to its rightful owner, Mrs Lancaster after she gifted it to Tommy’s Aunt. Tuppence gets into some scrapes, but she is on to something and it takes a bit of Tommy’s past skills to find out where she is when she fails to come home to him. Is that the beauty of Christie? I just think it might be. We have the facts early on, but despite me knowing the answer I could not see how it was all going to come together. None of it seems relevant or useful to Tommy Beresford but when you have been married as long as he has to Tuppence he knows there is perhaps a grain of something in her thought process.
I have always found Tuppence Beresford a bit wishy-washy, and this book lived up to that, but actually I think this part of her character which is what enables her to go off on these hunches when she remembers houses from trains, that later reappear in pictures and what elderly old women say when incarcerated in rest homes. Perhaps not the right way to tackle a book but I wanted to know what happened and how the conclusion was reached.
My warped version came from a television adaptation (more on that later) so I had a rough idea of the story and knew whodunnit. I knew the story, but not the actual story. And if the cover of the edition I read is anything to go by, something quite frightening or perhaps something desperately wicked.
From this typically unlikely beginning, murder and all kinds of excitement develop, to the point when Mrs Beresford meets the mass killer in the secret room of the house.ĭivided into four books we are back with Tommy and Tuppence who are drawn into a rather peculiar mystery. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit an unpleasant aunt in a home.
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