Friday, May 24, 2013

Answer to Book Quiz (May 20, 2013)


Answer to Book Quiz:



The most popular mystery writer of all time, Agatha Christie achieved the highest honor possible to a woman in Britain when she made a Dame of the British Empire.

Excerpt:

"Cousins by marriage and lovers by inclination, Roddy and Elinor were the ideal match. He loathed any display of emotion, while she was composed at all times. Then they got an anonymous letter warning that their rich Aunt Laura was thinking of cutting them off, and their world vanished. Roddy did the unthinkable, and fell in love. And Elinor herself charged with murder. When Hercule Poirot is hired to uncover the truth, even the inimitable Belgian detective is stumped. For a time."

ISBN: 0-425-06801-3


Book Quiz:

This author is popular with murder/mystery novels. Many of the novels have been re-released over the years, this particular book (the copy that I have) has been copyrighted four times, 1939, 1940, 1967, 1968.

She lists a quote from Shakespeare - 
Come away, come away, death,
And in cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true 
Did share it.

Quotes from the book:

"This is to Warn You,
   I'm naming no Names but there's Someone sucking up to your Aunt and if you're not kareful you'll get cut Out of Everything. Girls Are very Artful and Old Ladies is Soft when Young Ones suck up to Them and Flatter them What I say is You'd best come down and see for Yourself whats Going On its not right you and the Young Gentleman should be Done Out of What's yours - and She's Very Artful and the Old Lady might Pop off at any time.
       Well-Wisher" (page ?)  pg. 7

"Maybe she did. But there's many would have forgotten conveniently afterwards. Relations are like that. I've seen a few things, can tell you! People dying and saying they know they can leave it to their son or their dear daughter to carry out their wishes. Nine times out of ten, dear son and dear daughter find some very good reason to do nothing of the kind. Human nature's human nature, and nobody likes parting with money if they're not legally compelled to!..."  (page ?)  pg. 62

"So what follow - if a man stood here watching, and if he afterwards went to that window and climbed in and tampered with the sandwiches? What did he thing and believe? He though, he must have thought, that the sandwiches were to be eaten by ...."  (page ?)  pg. 177

Can you:

*Name the author?
*The title of the book?
*Who is the mystery series about?

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