Murder Is Easy

I like Christie's standalone detectives. Here retired policeman Luke Fitzwilliam investigates murders with supernatural overtones; In The Pale Horse, historian Mark Easterbrook looks into a series of deaths apparently caused by voodoo. Murder is Easy was published in 1939, but feels as if set a few years earlier. At one point Luke light-heartedly suggests that society could well do without quite a lot of people. "But who would be the judge?" asks young Dr Thomas - but he doesn't get Luke arrested, or locked up. Who would have thought back then that anyone would take such an idea seriously?There are many suggestions that something supernatural is going on - from the initial meetin in a train between Luke and Lavinia Pinkerton. "People have a LOOK, you know!" says dear old Lavinia. The local antique dealer "dabbles" in a Crowley-like cult. Luke poses as a folklorist and uncovers some genuine superstitions. Bridget, with her long black hair, is suggestively witch-like. She even goes out in a high wind without a hat - or a hair net! I am trying to imagine what you'd do with long hair in, say, 1935.Anyway, I love this book. The 1982 film with Bill Bixby, Timothy West, Fiona Fullerton, Helen Hayes, Leigh Lawson, Shane Bryant and Olivia de Havilland is good, too. Only Freddy Jones strikes a wrong note.

I am a huge fan of Agatha Christie and I never tire of reading her books. Bought this in fascimilie edition for nostalgic reasons. Started reading it on Friday and finished it today with much enjoyment.The characters are certainly varied and there are alot of twists and turns in this book that keeps you guessing (incorrectly) right up until the end. The description is this book is just right. Not too much and not too thin either.A very easy read that can be picked up and put down whenever you feel like a nice bit of escapism from our yesteryears.Good book. Will certainly recommend.

One of Agatha Christie's not Miss Marple and not Hercule Poirot detective stories.Based on a series of crimes nobody is really sure have really been committed,this story features a retired English policeman who decides to set himself on a course of investigation into the not so tranquil life of an English village only on the strenght of an encounter with an old English lady on a train.Maybe not the best story Agatha christie has ever written,but definitely not the worst either!

One of my favourite AC novels. The underlying message:never dismiss ‘little old ladies’, they see, hear and know everything.

Yet another great story from Agatha Christie. This one does not have Poirot or Miss Marple solving the case but this does not make this story any less interesting. Once again, you don't know the murderer until the end. This is a must for any fan of this type of media and you will not be disappointed.