They Do It With Mirrors
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good; red cloth. Jacket: Chipped and worn, faded. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Intact.
When Miss Jane Marple visits an old school friend, Carrie Louise, at her sprawling Victorian manor — now repurposed as a rehabilitation centre for young offenders — she arrives with a quiet but unshakeable suspicion that something is deeply wrong. What begins as a genteel reunion unravels with startling speed: a murder is committed in the dead of night, and the impossible geography of the crime scene defies every rational explanation. Agatha Christie, the undisputed Queen of Crime, constructs a masterwork of misdirection in which the very act of charitable goodness becomes a smokescreen for lethal intent. They Do It with Mirrors stands as a testament to Christie's genius for exploiting the reader's blind spots — her prose is deceptively simple, her plots devastatingly intricate. Miss Marple, sharp as ever beneath her gentle village-spinster exterior, cuts through a fog of false alibis and theatrical distractions with quiet, devastating precision. For those who believe they have Christie figured out, this novel issues a pointed and thoroughly enjoyable challenge.
Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1952, Collins Crime Club
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good; red cloth. Jacket: Chipped and worn, faded. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Intact.
When Miss Jane Marple visits an old school friend, Carrie Louise, at her sprawling Victorian manor — now repurposed as a rehabilitation centre for young offenders — she arrives with a quiet but unshakeable suspicion that something is deeply wrong. What begins as a genteel reunion unravels with startling speed: a murder is committed in the dead of night, and the impossible geography of the crime scene defies every rational explanation. Agatha Christie, the undisputed Queen of Crime, constructs a masterwork of misdirection in which the very act of charitable goodness becomes a smokescreen for lethal intent. They Do It with Mirrors stands as a testament to Christie's genius for exploiting the reader's blind spots — her prose is deceptively simple, her plots devastatingly intricate. Miss Marple, sharp as ever beneath her gentle village-spinster exterior, cuts through a fog of false alibis and theatrical distractions with quiet, devastating precision. For those who believe they have Christie figured out, this novel issues a pointed and thoroughly enjoyable challenge.