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Tommy e Tuppence Beresford vão à casa de repouso Sunny Ridge após a morte de tia Ada. Mas, enquanto buscam os pertences da mulher, descobrem que a sra. Lancaster, uma amiga da falecida com quem Tuppence tivera uma conversa assustadora em sua última visita, deixou o local. Diante desse infortúnio, Mrs. Beresford se vê impedida de ficar com um quadro presenteado à tia Ada pela senhora. A busca pela idosa e por sua permissão para manter a pintura a levará a um atípico vilarejo com um passado tão suspeito quanto seus moradores.
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In Agatha Christie I trust to get me out of a reading slump! Tommy & Tuppence are not my favorite Christie's detectives, but I like their adventures and the entire spionage & criminal gangs feel of their stories, and this one was so different from all the others - it had the same feel I got from reading Nemesis, with Miss Marple. You know those books with a kind of atmosphere? That sense that there is something wrong, that chill while reading, that slight tingling in the back of the neck...something wicked this way comes, indeed? That's how I felt while reading this book and that whole setting made the experience a lot better. Like Tuppence, I was dragged into the mystery of the house, the old lady and her chilling words - "Was that your poor child?". And I have to say, although I have a fair experience with Christie's books and I now can, mostly, get some some of the clues through the story and guess some of the things before the end, I couldn't see the solution for this one AT ALL. It took me by surprise and it left me thinking a lot after the end. So well done, like always.
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"By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes."
In Agatha Christie I trust to get me out of a reading slump! Tommy & Tuppence are not my favorite Christie's detectives, but I like their adventures and the entire spionage & criminal gangs feel of their stories, and this one was so different from all the others - it had the same feel I got from reading Nemesis, with Miss Marple. You know those books with a kind of atmosphere? That sense that there is something wrong, that chill while reading, that slight tingling in the back of the neck...something wicked this way comes, indeed? That's how I felt while reading this book and that whole setting made the experience a lot better. Like Tuppence, I was dragged into the mystery of the house, the old lady and her chilling words - "Was that your poor child?". And I have to say, although I have a fair experience with Christie's books and I now can, mostly, get some some of the clues through the story and guess some of the things before the end, I couldn't see the solution for this one AT ALL. It took me by surprise and it left me thinking a lot after the end. So well done, like always.
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