We begin with Tommy and Tuppence visiting Tommy’s aunt Ada in a retirement home. Even after her death they still carry their anger, and only after Calgary's bombshell makes them rethink the whole past, do some of them come to peace with the memory of Rachel.This is the fourth Tommy and Tuppence novel (a pair of protagonists who feature in five Agatha Christie novels).īy the Pricking of My Thumbsis just as engrossing and intricately woven as we have come to expect from the best Agatha Christie books. and their caloriesĬomputed!" Except for Tina, every one of the surviving children has a grudge against Rachel, either for thwarting them in what they wanted to do, or for being right about them when they insisted on doing their own thing and failed. Why, those kids even had their vegetables sieved. They weren't just turned out into the garden to play like ordinary childrenįood wasn't plain, ordinary food. My favourite AC quote is from this book (I'm including a few following sentences to make it clearer): "The thing she didn't give them and that they needed, was a little plain, honest-to-goodness
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Tommy, I agree with you - while I didn't see the series (it doesn't show where I live) and I certianly won't be watching it after the comments here, the children in the book are certainly damaged - damaged by an omnipotent mother who always knows what is best for them, and therefore doesn't let them make their own choices and mistakes and built their own character. 'Outrage at BBC's decision to change Murderer' There would be a time when I would sit down for every AC adaptation, especially when it was a Suchet Poirot and I absolutely love Joan Hickson as Marple, but I don't know whats happened with these recent adaptations, I accept that AC did write some plots which were dark such as ATTWN, but to carry that style on and say that 'this is AC' is wrong as AC was a Mistress of many different styles! It has echos of the ITV Marple, when they changed the ending of The Body in the Library. It looks like style over substance, as it is now about more 'arty' shots than the characters and the plot. I have heard reports that they have changed the ending and murderer. I am unsure whether to watch this new version. Regarding Ordeal by Innocence I am mid way through the book and loving it. I felt that when I sat down to watch Witness for the Prosecution I was disappointed that it was in the same style, and that I think it didn't deserve to be a two parter.
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I am not a fan of SP adaptations, I felt that they got away with And then there were none. In the drama, she is such a horrible person you can't really blame anyone for batting her over the head. And that is why it's tragic she is killed for the reason she is. So the only way we know when it is set is the dresses the women are wearing.Īnd it annoys me that Rachel is always portrayed as a monster in dramas. People of that class in the 1950s did not behave that way in public.
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This is now a house full of victims and monsters and there's no subtlety of plot. And now, with the arrival of Arthur Calgary, nothing makes sense.īut SP has written all of the characters as damaged and with good reason to kill Rachel. The Argylls are a family that have settled into a routine contentment after a tragic event that made sense to them. And it is that undercurrent of dismay and suspicion that makes this one of my favourites. The thing with AC is that she wrote fairly normal people in a situation where one of them is not what he or she seems. I felt that SP has completely changed the feel of the story.
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