By: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Signet Mysteries, Penguin Books
Publish Date: November 2000
Genre: Mystery
Format: Paperback, 217 pgs - Pocket size
Series: I am not sure if it is considered a series, but part of Featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.
Recommendation: If you are a mystery lover, they you probably already love Agatha Christie. If not this is for straight mystery for people.
Book Synopsis:
Who is the beautiful actress whose trail leads to a perfectly staged murder? What are a mother and daughter to do when a haunted house becomes their deadly inheritance? Where better than a costume ball to conceal the identity of a masked killer? A variety of uncanny crimes calls for a variety of resolve. In this "hilarious burlesque of detective fiction" (New York Times), two of Agatha Christie's most adventurous sleuths, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, adopt the methods and manners of every major literary detective from Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Homes to piece together an increasingly complex series of delightfully different - and deadly - misdeeds.
First Sentence:
Mrs. Thomas Beresford shifted her position on the divan and looked gloomily out of the window of the flat.
My Review and Summary:
I am sure many of you are wondering what this book is doing here. Well, I read it with the TuesBookTalk on twitter. (You are welcome to join us for our next book discussion if you would like!) I stick pretty much to fantasy and paranormal reads, so thought I would expand my horizons - or something like that - and give different genre a quick try. Doing discussions with others is what helps keep me into reading the books.
This book is a collection of short mysteries in which Tommy and Tuppence work their way through posing as detectives owning their own agency, as asked by Scotland Yard, to catch a mean suspect. Tommy and Tuppence are wonderful characters. They have great humor and love to pick on each other. I really enjoyed the teasing of each other. And this lovely couple act out different detectives for each case, based on what they know of the case. You really get a small glimps of how they see other detectives in the books.
