Answer to Book Quiz (Aug 5)

Answer to Book Quiz (Aug 5)

Can you:
~ Name the author?  Agatha Christie (writing as Mary Westmacott)
~ The title of this book?  The Rose and the Yew Tree
~ One other book published by this author?  Unfinished Portrait

Agatha Christie (Mary Westmacott) ~ The Rose and the Yew Tree

Back Cover:

Danger and Desire

Lovely Isabella Charteris trembled in the summer garden. For as long as she could remember, she had lived at Castle St. Loo. And for years she had believed she would marry Rupert. Handsome as a young god, he offered her everything she had ever wished for - love, security, the continuity of tradition, a happy marriage.

Would she really leave him now for John Gabriel, a man she had known less then three weeks? In Gabriel's arms, she felt more than passion. But what did he offer? Where would he lead her? And why couldn't she resist him - the man who was so charming, so ruthless ... an opportunist, a demon ... a hero, a saint.

Book Quiz (Aug 5)

• Mystery
• Dell Publishing Co., Inc
• Copyright, 1947
• First printing, July 1982
• Pg. 189

Quotes from the book:

• The lorry came at forty miles an hour out of the side road - there was no seeing or avoiding it - no failure in driving - no faulty reaction. The driver of the lorry was drunk, they told me afterwards - how little it matters why a thing happens!  pg 21
• But it was interesting to find a pocket of England where the old ideas still survived. The ruling class. The governing class. All such hateful phrases. And yet - be honest - something in them?  pg 43
• I knew what his wife's mind was. It was probably his criterion for judging other people's.  pg 103

Can you:
~ Name the author?
~ The title of this book?
~ One other book published by this author?