They Do It With Mirrors: A Miss Marple Mystery

I adore Miss Marple but this one is my least favorite book of the series. It's the most predictable one, the slowest-paced, and has the most confusing family tree of characters. The murderer is obvious from the beginning, no surprises, especially if you've ever read Christie's detective stories with Inspector Battle as the leading man. The trick here is the same as in The Seven Dials, and the coincidence of some events is so obvious that even the soap opera of it all doesn't distract from the outcome. Also, this is probably the only Miss Marple story where I truly felt like Miss Marple might have made the situation worse by being there, meddling, and confusing another person who had known the truth from the start and could have possibly prevented the worst outcome if it weren't for Miss Marple's interference.

Death is scheduled on the calendar; not interrupting anyone too much, creating volunteer charity work to do. Solving various problems at crime scenes and tying up loose ends in the days afterward. The victim is always the area the crime scenes are in; the deceased has a first & last name. Money is a bit separate from area company supply stores; therefore, is directly applied to a person's worth. The calendar is first priority set by companies for their supplies and employee schedule; money is for worth. Emotional language is reserved for the weather and never agrees well with characters. It usually their scene and they want to use their words for the area; weather ones just don't fit. They always lose their argument.

I only beginning the miss Marple series I recommend stringy you buy the pack of the first 3 miss Marple cases first to fully understand and appreciate the references in this one