![]() ![]() And, really you know, nobody can do that but yourself.’Īll is not well with the boys either – one of them, Edgar Lawson is suffering from delusions, saying his father is Churchill and then that he is Montgomery. ‘crank’, a ‘man with ideals’, ‘bitten by the bug of wanting to improve everybody’s lives for them. Lewis Serrocold is Carrie’s third husband, described by Ruth as a Miss Marple finds an unhappy household, including Mildred, Carrie Louise’s widowed daughter, Stephen and Alex, her stepsons, and Gina, her adopted daughter’s daughter, married to an American, Wally Hudd. She can’t put her finger on what is wrong, she just felt the atmosphere wasn’t right, whether it was the boys’ home – ‘ those dreadful young delinquents‘ or something else and she asks Miss Marple to visit Carrie Louise to see if her fears are justified. ![]() Ruth is worried about Carrie Louise, who is now living in a country house in the south of England with her husband, Lewis Serrocold, which he has turned into a home for delinquent boys. Miss Marple has known her and her sister, Carrie Louise since they had been together at a pensionnat in Florence. It begins with Miss Marple reminiscing with an old friend, Mrs Ruth Van Rydock, an American. I don’t think it’s one of her best, but I did like it. ![]() ![]() I’m slowly reading my way through Agatha Christie’s books, not in chronological order, but just as I come across them and this month I’ve read They Do It With Mirrors which was first published in 1952. ![]()
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