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Carole´s Monday: The Tuesday night club

 

Author: Agatha Christie
Narrator: Mark Bowen

Title: The Tuesday Night Club

Series: Miss Marple #SS 1

Genre: Mystery, Short Story, Classic
Format: Audiobook

Published: 1927
Where I Got It: Borrowed from library


Summary: 

A weekly gathering of murder mystery fans. Each week one of them challenges the rest of the group with a new mystery. Who can rise to the challenge?

And now for the first difficult case that comes to the Tuesday Night Club. The story begins with a dinner. After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of trifle, three people became ill and one of them, Mrs. Jones, died. A bout of botulism was suspected but could it have been more than that?

Sir Henry Clithering, the former head of Scotland Yard, recounts it all to the club assembled at Miss Marple's house in St. Mary Mead. The group are keen to delve deeper as he asks whether any of them can resolve it. In the corner sat Miss Marple, knitting and listening.

Review:

I'm a terrible AC fan......I've never read any of the Miss Marple (that I can remember). EEE. Oops. 

Each week, this group of murder-mystery fans takes on a new mystery. The first difficult case lands on their lap....after supper, three people became ill, and one of them died. Who? How? Why? Everyone has their opinions, but who is right?

We all know the answer....Miss Marple will be the one to solve it. LOL, but I loved the format of this lil short story. She was fun! I want more time with her to really fall for her as I have with Hercule. BUT it was a nice intro to this unlikely hero. 

The mystery was nice and so complicated that it had such a simple solution. 

The narrator did well. I would listen to more if he did the voices for more.

Overall, quick, nice, and an interesting mystery. I want more. 

4 stars. 

Reading Challenges

- Audiobook #41

- Library Love #25

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

Series: Hex Hall (#1)

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Published: February 1, 2011 by Hyperion Book CH

YA paranormal/own

I have had this one forever. So finally I just went for it

Sophie is a half witch who gets sent to boarding school cos we cant let the normies know there are things that go bump in the night.

A hot guy. A coven of mean girl witches. A vampire bestie. Teachers who are strict, and not knowing of your own blood line.

There the usual teen drama. It was an amusing read

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It’s gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie’s estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it’s her dad who decides her exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.

By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.

As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.

Audio: A gentleman´s pursuit by Amy Dorazio

Narrated by: Simon Alison

Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins

Release date: 04-10-26

Publisher: Quills & Quartos Publishing

Pride and prejudice variation/audible

Another PP book, surprise! Oh they are so fun.

Here Mr Bennet is dead and they now live in London and are poor. But Lizzy and Darcy does meet, but no names. He still manages to get into Mr Bingley´s business too.

The story takes a turn as Lizzy is hired as Anne de Burghs´s friend as she makes her debut into society. Oh and Darcy is on the outs with his family.

I liked how they eventually find each other here, and slowly fall in love. And as always it is fun to see what a difference a few things can make.

Great narration too

After an anonymous encounter at a Hertfordshire assembly, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet conduct a secret courtship without knowing each other's identities—unaware that she is the paid companion to the cousin he jilted and that their families' intertwined fates will force them to choose between love and duty.