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Murder with Mirrors 1

I haven't gotten far into the book, and it's already fascinating. Written in 1952, it's set at a "home for juvenile delinquents." The book begins with Agatha's Miss Marple character talking to an old friend (Ruth) about another old friend, Carrie. This Carrie character has a tendency to marry "cranks" - people with ideals, that is. I haven't met Carrie in the book just yet, but I'm already biased to think that she's the type to follow a guy wherever they lead. I'll even go so far as to think that Carrie doesn't have ideals of her own, but substitutes the work of having ideals by marrying someone who does. Have you met Carrie yet? Have you met her husband? Well, he's either a "Swede or a Norwegian or something" (pg 4) and he was 50 when she married him at the tender age of 17. I had ideals at 17. And yes, I was cranky for it. While I'm not the type to blindly follow someone else's ideals, I remember that...
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Dear Agatha

I've spent over 25 with Agatha Christie books, and I love them all. Some are better than others, but all of them have parts of Agatha in them. She's a curious author that doesn't leave out her opinions on everyday life, whether it's how difficult it is to get good servants, or how tragic it was that girls in the 70's wore woolen stockings in the summer with their miniskirts and unwashed hair, and that very clearly, the stockings were unwashed, too. I didn't notice her breadcrumbs of opinions at first, but I'm not the biggest fan of fiction. English class was better spent on writing than reading, and I undoubtedly missed all of those conversations based on what the author meant by such-and-such passage. Agatha doesn't throw a whole lot of innuendo in her writing, thankfully. Sure, there's clues to the murder (and even more red herrings), but if someone has a personality type, she'll tell you about it in black and white. Agatha wrote over five ...
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