Agatha Christie – Page 22

This week is Agatha Christie Festival Week coordinated by the Torbay Cultural Partnership – lots of activities and events are being held. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15th September 1890 in Torquay.

Here in the blogging world one of my favourite bloggers, Kerrie of MYSTERIES IN PARADISE has organised a blog tour Celebrating the life and work of Agatha Christie where bloggers have undertaken to put up a special post on their own sites. Before I’d realised it we’re now on to day 5 of the tour and I haven’t posted about it. For all the details of who has posted so far go over to Kerrie’s blog to see who has posted what so far and what is coming up in the next few days.

My own post is scheduled for 21 September – almost the last post of the tour.

Today I’ve been reading Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library. I’ve been reading it carefully, concentrating on the characters and trying to work out who killed Ruby and deposited her body in the Bantrys’ library at Gossington Hall. I’ve got up to the point where Miss Marple has decided she knows who the murderer is, but has not let on, because she says there’s a long way to go yet and there are a great many things that are quite obscure. She must be a most frustrating friend – Mrs Bantry is desperate to know who it is because everyone is saying it must be Colonel Bantry because the body was found in their house.

I have no idea who the murderer is – all the likely suspects have alibis for the time that the murder was committed, so either I’ve missed someone, or the timing is wrong, or something! The only thing to do is to read on and find out. I dislike it when it turns out that a new person is the murderer. I feel cheated, having spent time working it all out, so I hope this isn’t one of those books!