Wednesday, July 5, 2017

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Author: Agatha Christie
Stars: 5
Review by: MApgar

When the fairly sleepy holiday shopper Elspeth McGillicuddy is startled by the sight of a woman being strangled, she is even more startled when nobody believes her - nobody, that is, but her friend Jane Marple. The latter sets Lucy Eyelesbarrow to the task - a brilliant Oxford educated young woman who found out she had a talent for managing people and went into a career of domestic goddess / helper, she takes a post at a crumbling estate where Marple thinks the body was hidden. Run by an bitter old man with a squadron of sons possessing various character defects and a daughter well on her way to being the village 'old maid,' Lucy tries to figure which one (if any of them) was involved. And that was before even more bodies began piling up-
 

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