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Summary: Enjoy This Great Cozy Village Mystery from Agatha Christie
Review: Miss Lavinia Fullerton is a typical English spinster. In fact, she is very reminiscent of Miss Marple and the charming elderly ladies that inhabited the cozy villages of England in the time between the two World Wars. While travelling on a train to London, she chats with Luke Fitzwilliam, a young policeman, about all the murders that have been taking place in her village of Wychwood under Ashe. Her subsequent death in London traffic involves Luke in this cozy village mystery. The novel is populated with the basic village characters: doctor, lawyer, vicar, several elderly ladies, a retired military man, and one precocious young boy. Luke will suspect just about all of them at one point or another in the story, but in a tense and thrilling ending, all is revealed. This entertaining book became a 1982 made-for-tv movie starring Bill Bixby as Luke and Helen Hayes as Lavinia.
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Summary: Suspensful, chilling and very well-written
Review: Murder Is Easy is one of the best mysteries I've ever read. Agatha Christie is the greatest mystery of all time. A very surprising ending!
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Summary: Murder might be easy, but guessing whodunit isn't.
Review: Murder is easy, but guessing whodunit isn't. The possibility that murder is easy is the focus of this ingenious little novel. Ideas for writing murder mysteries certainly came easily to Agatha Christie during her long writing career. She devises a memorable opening to this one. She also turns a cozy convention she had helped to establish in its head in order to thwart the reader's attempt to guess whodunit. The game she plays with the reader here necessitates having neither Hercule Poirot nor Miss Marple participating. The sleuth is Luke, a recuperating young man who chances to share a railway carriage with a garrulous old lady, Miss Pinkerton, who is on her way to Scotland Yard to enlist help in putting an end to a series of accidental deaths in her village, deaths that she believes are murders. Intrigued, especially when she is killed by a hit and run driver before reaching her destination, he decides to investigate. So expect to enjoy time with him in an English village full of eccentrics where all the work is done by servants and most of the time is spent in gossip. Don't expect sophisticated prose or an intrusive narrator. Agatha Christie keeps herself well hidden, directing a large cast as they deliver banal dialogue, and contriving wonderfully well to lead suspicion away from the killer.
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Summary: Classic Christie
Review: Murder is Easy, is a gripping tale and a classic piece of detective fiction in its own right. It was written in the 1930's so some of the attitudes and opinions of the main character seem at times laughably old fashioned, but this does not detract from enjoying the tale, and could be said to give it a period charm. I must admit that this time I thought I had outfoxed Christie and guessed the identity of the murderer, but in classic Christie style I was completely surprised to find it was someone I had not even suspected. A real must-read book for all crime fiction fans.
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Summary: Murder might be easy, but guessing whodunit isn't.
Review: The possibility that murder is easy is the focus of this ingenious little novel. Ideas for writing murder mysteries certainly came easily to Agatha Christie during her long writing career. She devises a memorable opening to this one. She also turns a cozy convention she had helped to establish on its head in order to thwart the reader's attempt to guess whodunit. The game she plays with the reader here necessitates having neither Hercule Poirot nor Miss Marple participating. The sleuth is Luke, a recuperating young man who chances to share a railway carriage with a garrulous old lady, Miss Pinkerton, who is on her way to Scotland Yard to enlist help in putting an end to a series of accidental deaths in her village, deaths that she believes are murders. Intrigued, especially when she is killed by a hit and run driver before reaching her destination, he decides to investigate. So expect to enjoy time with him in an English village full of eccentrics where all the work is done by servants and most of the time is spent in gossip. Don't expect sophisticated prose or an intrusive narrator. Agatha Christie keeps herself well hidden, directing a large cast as they deliver banal dialogue, and contriving wonderfully well to lead suspicion away from the killer.
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Summary: Murder might be easy, but guessing whodunit isn't.
Review: The possibility that murder is easy is the focus of this ingenious little novel. Ideas for writing murder mysteries certainly came easily to Agatha Christie during her long writing career. She devises a memorable opening to this one. She also turns a cozy convention she had helped to establish on its head in order to thwart the reader's attempt to guess whodunit. The game she plays with the reader here necessitates having neither Hercule Poirot nor Miss Marple participating. The sleuth is Luke, a recuperating young man who chances to share a railway carriage with a garrulous old lady, Miss Pinkerton, who is on her way to Scotland Yard to enlist help in putting an end to a series of accidental deaths in her village, deaths that she believes are murders. Intrigued, especially when she is killed by a hit and run driver before reaching her destination, he decides to investigate. So expect to enjoy time with him in an English village full of eccentrics where all the work is done by servants and most of the time is spent in gossip. Don't expect sophisticated prose or an intrusive narrator. Agatha Christie keeps herself well hidden, directing a large cast as they deliver banal dialogue, and contriving wonderfully well to lead suspicion away from the killer.
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Summary: murder is easy,finding murderer is too hard.
Review: this book really deserves 5 stars.but this can not find a place in A.C's best 10 books.but nice to read,you are guessing killer through book and killer says 'surprise!!.anyway.i wont tell book's plot prosaicly.just be sure you won't be rueful when you ended this book,which is one of the best of AC.
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Summary: This is fabulous !
Review: This is the first Agatha Christie Novel that I read. After reading 'Murder is Easy', I became an Agatha Christie's Fan ! Like most of her books, this one have an amazing suprise ending. (I was so amazed when I know who the murderer was !) This book is very interesting too, and it glued me to the chair, forcing me to finish this book at one go. (And it's worth it !) So, this is a perfect book for first time reader of Agatha Christie. (And if you're already a fan of Christie, you should read this book too !) 5 Stars !
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This Was a great book, you will never know who did it. I read this book and every 10 minutes I thought somebody differnt was the killer. This was the first Agatha Christie books I read and I would recomend it to anybody.
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Summary: Hmm, maybe working it out isn't so much fun after all!
Review: To my utter amazement, I worked out who the murderer was halfway through the book - and spent the next half of the book metaphorically screaming at Luke and Bridget for their stupidity in not seeing it.
"Murder is Easy" is quite a good little mystery. There's a bit more romantic tension than is usual for Agatha Christie and many fun red herrings to get diverted by. It's a little loose in its execution, though - the supposed "macabre" atmosphere and Luke's cover story are very perfunctorily handled, for example.
Still, I enjoyed it.
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