Christie hits the target yet again with her fabulous murder mystery (A Murder Is Announced - Agatha Christie)

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Product:	A Murder Is Announced - Agatha Christie
Date:	26/06/09 (11 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Readable over and over, brilliantly constructed, a timeless classic

Disadvantages: Only that writers have become more gruesome

Agatha Christie will always be for me the definitive crime writer, her books reflect a period in time that is now long gone typically circa 1920's /30's but they do span into the 50's/60's. Murder is typified in an almost gentlemanly conduct way that is devoid of the over grucifying that modern writers feel they need to provide. Without a doubt Christies training as a pharmacist during the first world war period plays a pivotal part in all of her books and her ability to lift human characters undoubtedly from here real life and to transcribe them into books.

A Murder is Announced is set in the typical idyllic english village of Chipping Cleghorn where one day the village becomes mucg agog with an announcement in the local paper outling that a murder shall take place at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm on Friday October 29th.

Discussion becomes rife amongst the villagers as to whether this is a practical joke or a hoax with the intention of scaring the lady of the house Letitia Blacklock. Curiosity wins over the local residents and they decide to descend upon the house at the designated time as if almost by accident.

The heating is on, yet its warm, the lights go out and a mysterious character is murdered!!!! What could it all mean? This is Christie at her best - this book is well constructed and has a plot to keep you on your toes.

Summary: Murder in a most civilised capacity - it must be the brilliant Christie!