Title: A Caribbean Mystery
Author: Christie, Agatha
Genre: Mystery
Number of Pages: 221
ISBN: 9781579127381
Book Description
(from inside flap):
Stricken
with arthritis, Miss Jane Marple has packed herself off, at the insistence of
her nephew, for some rest and relaxation at a resort in the Caribbean.
The sea is sublime and the weather is fine in this quiet paradise so far away
from bustling St. Mary Mead. But suddenly the calm is interrupted by the death
of Major Palgrave, one of her fellow guests at the hotel.
Miss Marple
finds herself quite disturbed by this turn of events. She’d just spent the
previous evening speaking with the major, who’d seemed to her to be in
perfectly good health. He’d been telling her about a photograph that he had-“a
snapshot of a murderer…” he’d claimed. Convinced that the major’s death was not
at all natural, she begins to ask difficult questions. It soon becomes clear
that a murderer is lurking among her companions at the hotel, and it is up to
Miss Marple to root out this person before he or she can strike again.
My Read:
It’s
another good read of Agatha Christie’s mystery books. There are characters that
would be repeatedly featured in her other books, though not served as a sequel.
Personally, I usually could find some words, if not phrases,
replete with wisdom in Ms. Christie’s books. Here is one that I remember.
“Well, well. I know all we medicos hand these things out
freely nowadays. Nobody tell young women who can’t sleep to count sheep, or get
up and eat a biscuit, or write a couple of letters and then go back to bed.
Instant remedies, that’s what people demand nowadays. Sometimes, I think it’s a
pity we give them to them. You’ve got
to learn to put up with things in life. All very well to stuff a
comforter into a baby’s mouth to stop it crying. Can’t go on doing that all a
person’s life….I bet you, if you asked Miss Marple what she does if she can’t
sleep, she’d tell you she counted sheep going under a gate.”-page 174
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