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The Blue Geranium: a Miss Marple Short Story (Miss Marple #SS 7)
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Dec 24, 2022
bookshelves: agatha-christie, audio, crime, hoopla, mystery, read-in-2022, short-stories, read-in-a-different-collection
When Arthur & Dolly Bantry ask Sir Henry Clithering who he would like to invite over as a dinner guest to round out their house party, he shocks them by asking for Miss Marple to be included.
When he tells Dolly about the uncanny way the elderly spinster solved the mysteries of the Tuesday Night Club the year before, she starts to think maybe Miss Marple could help her solve a seemingly paranormal murder mystery.
There once was an annoying hypochondriac who drove her husband crazy with her outrageous demands over her health and drove everyone else crazy with her poor me attitude, as they all knew she wasn't really sick.
However, after a visit from a fortune-teller warns her to beware the blue geranium sends her into a frenzy, and the blue geranium pops up on the wallpaper in her bedroom, the woman mysteriously does die!
Was this a true paranormal event? Or did someone succeed in offing the woman?
Miss Marple to the rescue.
I've read this one in several collections over the years. It's not my favorite, but it's an enjoyable Marple short.
Originally published in The Story-Teller magazine in 1929.
Read as part of the short story collections The Thirteen Problems & The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural.
When he tells Dolly about the uncanny way the elderly spinster solved the mysteries of the Tuesday Night Club the year before, she starts to think maybe Miss Marple could help her solve a seemingly paranormal murder mystery.
There once was an annoying hypochondriac who drove her husband crazy with her outrageous demands over her health and drove everyone else crazy with her poor me attitude, as they all knew she wasn't really sick.
However, after a visit from a fortune-teller warns her to beware the blue geranium sends her into a frenzy, and the blue geranium pops up on the wallpaper in her bedroom, the woman mysteriously does die!
Was this a true paranormal event? Or did someone succeed in offing the woman?
Miss Marple to the rescue.
I've read this one in several collections over the years. It's not my favorite, but it's an enjoyable Marple short.
Originally published in The Story-Teller magazine in 1929.
Read as part of the short story collections The Thirteen Problems & The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural.
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October 28, 2022
– Shelved