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Summary: Read it for the ending
Review: This was a great book. The story was good, but the ending was very suspenseful. I recomend this book just for the ending.
The story is that Tuppence and Tommy come across a painting of a house. Tuppence thinks she recognizes the house. It all results into a run-in with a child murderer. (the great ending)
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Summary: By The Pricking Of My Thumbs
Review: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, who are an elderly couple in their 70's, look for an adventure in any way they can. It all starts when Tommy and Tuppence go and visit Tommy's Aunt Ada in Sunny Ridge Nursing Home. Tuppence finds company in another elderly women named Mrs. Lancaster. Mrs Lancaster startles Tuppence when she asks "Was it your poor child." After leaving the nursing home she was thinking more and more about Mrs Lancaster. A couple weeks later Aunt Ada died.
Soon after Aunt Ada died Tommy ans Tuppence went to go and get Aunt Ada's things. Among the things Tuppence found a picture that she reconized. She had seen the house before. She found out the picture belonged to Mrs. Lancaster. When she treid to find Mrs. Lancaster she was gone. Someone removed her from Sunny Ridge.
Tuppence decided she would go and try to find the house, but after she found the house she then found out why Mrs. Lancaster was missing and why she asked if it was her poor child. Her adventure lead her to many conclusions and dangerous turns. She finds out that Mrs. Lancaster's disapearance is tied into a lot of children murders a long time ago. This book is a good book to read if you like mystery tied in with suspense. The end could have been tied up a bit more.
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Summary: This book gave me the creeps
Review: Well plotted Agatha has many memorable characters and several red herrings to throw you off the track so you'll never see the shocking ending. The multi layered story becomes more and more complex but it is livened up greatly by Tommy and Tuppence's witty banter, between themselves and also when they're scolding their manservant, Albert, who has been in every one of their books. I wish Christie had written more tales with this couple. Their adventures always seemed more realistic and possible. This one most of all will leave you reeling. It's final twist is a doozie.
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Summary: An eerie thriller
Review: While her husband Tommy is away, Tuppence tries to track down an eldery woman who disappeared from a nursing home. She finds she's in over her head as she finds the disappearance is connected to a gang of thieves and to a series of murders of children years ago. When Tuppence doesn't return home, Tommy has to track down his wife, just as Tuppence had to track the old woman. As other reviewers have stated, this is rather one of the more chilling of Christie's stories, mostly because of the psychological nature of the villain.
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Summary: The weakest Tommy and Tuppence novel
Review: While Tommy Beresford visits his feeble old Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge rest home, his wife Tuppence meets old Mrs. Lancaster in the sitting room. The solitary woman is drinking a glass of milk because "It is not poisoned today." Suddenly she looks at the fireplace and asks: "Was it your poor child? That is where it is, you know." When three weeks later Aunt Ada dies, Tommy and Tuppence revisit the rest house. Intrigued by the fact that old Mrs. Lancaster has suddenly disappeared without a trace, the old sleuth starts her own dangerous investigation.The title is from Macbeth, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." To many readers it is a complete mystery why Agatha Christie kept returning to that somewhat tedious couple Tommy and Tuppence. Compared to her other sleuths Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, this couple turns out bleak and soulless. In By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) it only gets worse. Not only are Tommy and Tuppence clearly suffering from senility, they also get involved in a story that completely lacks the ingenuity of their earlier appearances. Although a lot of promising subplots are started, during the story Agatha slowly kills all of them. What is left is an ending that is not only unbelievable and boring, but also completely wrong. I would not advice anyone to read this novel. But if you still do, please keep in mind that Agatha Christie wrote some brilliant novels that cannot be compared to this debacle.
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