Book Quiz (Nov 25)

Book Quiz (Nov 25)

For the month of November, there will be another Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

ISBN: 0-517-03582-0

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

Quotes from the stories:

~ Can you name the story?

~ Can you post which page?

• I had dismissed the last of them, as I thought, and was just contemplating a few minutes in the garden before lunch when I perceived one more patient waiting for me. She rose and came toward as I stood somewhat surprised. I don't know why I should have been, except that there is a suggestion of cast iron about Miss Russell, a something that is above the ills of the flesh.

• I noticed, just as I was turning the handle, a sound from within - the shutting down of a window, I took it to be. I noted it, I may say, quite mechanically, without attaching any importance to it at the time.

• "That's good. I've been questioning the servants. They all declare that no one has been to the back door tonight. Your description of that stranger was rather vague. Can't you five us something more definite to go upon?"

• We all trooped into the dining room. It seemed incredible that less than twenty-four hours had passed since I last sat at that table.

Movie for Book Quiz (Nov 18)

Here is the movie from last weeks book quiz.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0073J7N38/ref=dv_dp_ep2

If you have Amazon Prime you can watch it for free.

Book Quiz (Nov 18)

For the month of November, there will be another Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

ISBN: 0-517-03582-0

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

Quotes from the stories:

~ Can you name the story?

~ Can you post which page?

• There were two boys of the second marriage to whom their parents were devoted, and I fancied that Megan sometimes felt odd-man in the establishment. She certainly did not resemble her mother, who was a small anemic woman, fadedly pretty, who talked in a thin melancholy voice of servant difficulties and her health.

• And not one I couldn't match from other cases! This one here is as near as nothing to one written by that milliner woman. This is one is the dead spit of an outbreak we had up in Northumberland - written by a schoolgirl, they were. I can tell you, gentlemen, I'd like to see something new sometimes, instead of the same old treadmill.

• It wasn't me who thought of asking her! She rang up herself, said she'd something on her mind and could she com here, it being her day off. And I said, yes, subject to your permission which I obtained. And after that, not a sound or sign of her! And no word of apology either, though I should hope I'll get a postcard tomorrow morning. These girls nowadays - don't know their place - no idea of how to behave.

• I thought it over. "No," I said, "frankly I haven't. If there's a dangerous lunatic about, driving inoffensive women to suicide and hitting miserable little maidservants on the head, then I'm no adverse to doing a bit of dirty work to put that lunatic under restraint."

• The road was quite deserted. Nobody in Lymstock is about after dark. The first few houses were just ahead, among the ugly gabled building of the Women's Institute. It loomed up in the dim starlight and something impelled me to go and have a look at it. I don't know whether I had caught a faint glimpse of a stealthy figure flitting through the gate - if so, it must have been so indeterminate that it did not register in my conscious mind, but I did suddenly feel a kind of overweening curiosity about the place.

Book Quiz (Nov 18)

Book Quiz (Nov 18)

For the month of November, there will be another Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

ISBN: 0-517-03582-0

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

Quotes from the stories:

~ Can you name the story?

~ Can you post which page?

• There were two boys of the second marriage to whom their parents were devoted, and I fancied that Megan sometimes felt odd-man in the establishment. She certainly did not resemble her mother, who was a small anemic woman, fadedly pretty, who talked in a thin melancholy voice of servant difficulties and her health.

• And not one I couldn't match from other cases! This one here is as near as nothing to one written by that milliner woman. This is one is the dead spit of an outbreak we had up in Northumberland - written by a schoolgirl, they were. I can tell you, gentlemen, I'd like to see something new sometimes, instead of the same old treadmill.

• It wasn't me who thought of asking her! She rang up herself, said she'd something on her mind and could she com here, it being her day off. And I said, yes, subject to your permission which I obtained. And after that, not a sound or sign of her! And no word of apology either, though I should hope I'll get a postcard tomorrow morning. These girls nowadays - don't know their place - no idea of how to behave.

• I thought it over. "No," I said, "frankly I haven't. If there's a dangerous lunatic about, driving inoffensive women to suicide and hitting miserable little maidservants on the head, then I'm no adverse to doing a bit of dirty work to put that lunatic under restraint."

• The road was quite deserted. Nobody in Lymstock is about after dark. The first few houses were just ahead, among the ugly gabled building of the Women's Institute. It loomed up in the dim starlight and something impelled me to go and have a look at it. I don't know whether I had caught a faint glimpse of a stealthy figure flitting through the gate - if so, it must have been so indeterminate that it did not register in my conscious mind, but I did suddenly feel a kind of overweening curiosity about the place.

Book Quiz (Nov 11) or Not?

Book Quiz (Nov 11)

For the month of November, there will be another Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

ISBN: 0-517-03582-0

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

As we go through this book for November, and I thought I would post up one of the stories from the book.  This one I have seen the screen adaption for and thought they did a good job of bringing the characters to life.

The Secret Adversary

     Is the first story in this book by Agatha Christie. This one of the books that have the characters Tommy & Tuppence, in this one they are trying to find the answer to the missing Jane Finn. 

     Along the way they meet up with others who don't want them to find Jane Finn, or the information that she might know.

     Do Tommy & Tuppence succeed in finding Jane Finn? Those readers of Agatha Christie and the Tommy & Tuppence series will know the answer, do you?

Book Quiz (Nov 4)

Book Quiz (Nov 4)

For the month of November, there will be another Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

ISBN: 0-517-03582-0

Agatha Christie ~ Five Classic Murder Mysteries

There is the possibility of posts still showing up from last months book.

Agatha Christie ~ Miss Marple - The Complete Short Stories

ISBN: 0-399-150129-9

Agatha Christie ~ Miss Marple ~ The Complete Short Stories