The Mirror Crack'dBy: Agatha Christie
Reviewed by: Kayleigh , 16
Rating: Really liked it
We all have experienced zoning out of a conversation, even when someone is talking to us. Our minds become oblivious to that person and we focus on that thought that interrupted the chat. Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson describes it so well. “Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack’d from side to side: ‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried The Lady of Shalott.”
American film actress, Marina Gregg, greets her guests with a handshake and a cocktail. Her open house in St. Mary Mead is going well. She meets her next guest, Mrs. Badcock, who rambles on about how Mrs. Gregg is her idol. But something she says makes Gregg have the look of Lady Shalott. Then not ten minutes later Badcock is dead. Who killed this woman? How? And why didn’t someone see them do it? Miss Marple investigates.
This book is another one of Miss Marple’s brilliant mysteries that keeps you interested in the whole story. It is well written, but takes a little bit of reading to get to the mystery. So don’t be discouraged after reading the first few chapters. Overall, it is a good mystery with some interesting allusions.
Recommended to: mystery lovers
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