What types of books do you like to read when winter weather keeps you indoors?
The Sittaford Mystery was the #ReadChristie2021
selection for December. The theme was 'A
story set during bad weather.' I didn’t
get a chance to read it until the end of January, but I’m glad that I did.
On a Friday night with a winter storm brewing, six
neighbors have a séance. The message
from beyond is that “Captain Trevelyan …
dead…murder.” His friend Major Burnaby
rushes through the storm only to indeed find Captain Trevelyan dead. Captain Trevelyan may have lived a low-key
life in a rural village, but there seem to be plenty of people with a motive to
kill him. Was it his mysterious nephew,
Jim Pearson, who arrived in town the day of the murder? His other nephew that is supposed to be in
Australia? Who are the mysterious
tenants that have leased his home? Clues
are around every corner and Inspector Narracott, reporter Charles Enderby, and
Jim Pearson’s fiancée Emily Trefusis are on the case.
I enjoyed this mystery, and it was a perfect winter
weather read. I really loved the
character of Emily Trefusis. She had spunk
and was the driving force behind the investigation. Her wit and humor made the novel for me. I once again did not figure out the murderer
in this one. I was surprised at the end,
but it all did make sense.
The characters were all fun and interesting in this
novel, except for Emily’s fiancé Jim Pearson.
We don’t learn much about him and Emily’s descriptions of him make him
seem easy to manipulate. I was rooting
for Charles and Emily to end of up together.
The Sittaford Mystery is a standalone Christie
novel. I started watching a Miss Marple
episode titled, “The Sittaford Mystery,” that is from 2006. I only made it about twenty minutes into the
episode. Besides the book not being in the Miss Marple series, the plot up to
that point had nothing to do with the novel.
The music for the episode was also quite terrible. Are there any other
films or shows of this mystery that are more enjoyable?
Overall, The Sittaford Mystery was another enjoyable
Agatha Christie mystery.
Book Source:
Purchased from Amazon.com
I remember liking this Christie mystery. And it is a great wintry read. :)
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