The Body in The Library - Miss Marple #3

What would you do if you found a mannequin dead body in your library?

Title: The Body in the Library

Author: Agatha Christie

ISBN: 0007120834 (ISBN13: 9780007120833)

Recurring Characters: Jane Marple, Colonel Arthur Bantry, Dolly Bantry, Griselda Clement, Sir Henry Clithering, Miss Hartnell, Dr. Haydock, Martha Price Ridley, Caroline Wetherby

This is my second book from Miss Marple and I just can't imagine how an old lady, a perfectly ordinary old lady you can find, to be so knowledgeable in human nature. Unlike her neighborhood peers, who (should) love to hear and exaggerate town gossips while enjoying their cups of tea and household chores, Miss Marple is very sharp and selecting when it comes to gossips and conversations.

Lesson learnt, never in your life, do you underestimate your old neighbor next door, moreover, if she's a harmless innocent looking spinster!

The Body in the Library started with a finding of a dead body of a beautiful young girl, later recognized as Ruby Keene, in Colonel Bantry's library. Both Colonel and his wife claimed that they had never seen the girl before and knew nothing about her. Disturbed and at the same time, thrilled with the unforeseen affair, Mrs. Bantry wasted no time and called in her good friend, Miss Marple to make a little investigation on their own to clear Bantry's name.

Elephants can Remember - Hercule Poirot #37

Another book from Agatha Christie's Poirot series.

Title: Elephants can Remember

Author: Agatha Christie

ISBN13: 9780007299652

Recurring Characters: Ariadne Oliver, Hercule Poirot, Superintendent Spence, Mr. Goby

Elephants Can Remember, although understood as an old saying of how elephants do remember things despite years have passed, is used by the mystery writer, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver, as a metaphor of people who know and remember certain events that once happened long time ago. Elephants Can Remember starts in a quite similar fashion as Five Little Pigs with Celia Ravenscroft, a young lady who wanted to know the truth behind her parents death 12 years ago. Her parents had been found dead, shot by a gun found not far from them. On the gun, other than the deceased's, no other fingerprints had been found and the case was closed and accepted as a double suicide by the court. Wanting to know the truth before starting a new family with her love, Desmond, Celia agreed to let her godmother, Mrs. Oliver and M. Poirot help her in revealing the truth and once again, Poirot has to go back to the past to trace all the evidence and "elephants" related to the tragedy. Was it a murder or was it, as everyone believed it was, a pact suicide?

Not a very thrilling plot as the case is a "past" case and a very straightforward one, no twist or anything unexpected. On top of that, the past tragedy doesn't really give much impact to anyone's life afterwards. It's like a "So I finally arrive at the truth and now I can marry happily" sort of ending for Celia.

Cards on the Table - Hercule Poirot #15

The blog may be filled with a lot of Agatha Christie's as I'm on my way reading all her works at the moment =)

I'll start with my recent reading, Hercule Poirot series #15: Cards on the Table.

Title: Cards on the Table

Author: Agatha Christie

ISBN: 0007119348 (ISBN13: 9780007119349)

Recurring Characters: Ariadne Oliver, Poirot, Battle, Colonel John Hugh Despard, Colonel Johnny Race

Four justice seekers against four suspects! A private detective, a mystery writer, an officer from Scotland Yard and a secret service come together to solve the murder of Mr. Shaitana, a rich man with a little twisted mind (or so I think).

I should say Cards on the Table is a book that has a good storyline with an unexpected ending if you are looking at it from a bigger picture. However, if you are a keen reader and you are not familiar with bridge card game (like me), you'll probably find this book less interesting because the whole psychology of the murderer lies behind the way the game is being played and the score writing system.

I should probably look up some information about this bridge game before reading this, nevertheless I gave it 4 stars out of 5.

First Post

This is Morning Bookworm first post. This blog will be the outlet for sharing my opinions and thoughts on books I read or anything about books. If you happen to have read or currrently reading the same book, let me know and we can discuss it here! I usually read manga, novels and how-to books. I read almost any genres for manga but I only read mystery for novels (I'm a slow one year old novel reader) but I plan to pick up other genres as well (far future plan) ;)

Hope you enjoy reading all the posts to come and thanks for dropping by! 

FYI: I'll certainly give a short synopsis of what the whole book is all about. However, rest assured that I'm not going to spoil the whole story here.