opfnative.blogg.se - They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie

Disconnected by Death: A literary variant.Lewis is a crusader aiming to put delinquents back on the straight and narrow. Delinquents: Lewis Serrocold runs a reformatory full of delinquents.Contrived Coincidence: Lampshaded by Miss Bellever, who says "You don't expect murder and attempted murder in the same house on the same night." Subverted when Miss Marple figures out that it wasn't a coincidence at all, but rather Edgar and Lewis's plot.Soon he is shot and killed! Will Miss Marple discover the murderer? note Of course she will. Christian Gulbrandsen: Mildred's half-brother and Carrie Louise's stepson from her long-ago first marriage (Carrie Louise was a Trophy Wife and she and Christian are the same age).Ĭhristian, who is a trustee of the reformatory, arrives unexpectedly, and in a state of concern.Despite this handicap Lewis Serrocold is rehabilitating him, and Edgar is working as his assistant. Edgar is one of the young delinquents, a schizophrenic who sometimes thinks he's the son of either Winston Churchill or Field Marshal Montgomery. Juliet is Carrie Louise's longtime secretary and companion. Resents her mother and her family in general for preferring Mildred's sister and Gina's mom, Pippa, now long dead. Mildred, Carrie Louise's daughter and Gina's aunt.Both of them have eyes for beautiful Gina.

Alex and Stephen Restarick, Carrie Louise's stepsons from her second marriage.

Gina is married to an American, Walter Hudd, but their marriage is in trouble. Jane meets her old friend Carrie Louise, Lewis, and the rest of their complicated household: Lewis runs a reformatory for teenaged delinquents, a progressive institution seeking to give young criminal offenders the skills to be productive members of society. She goes to visit Carrie Louise, who is Happily Married to her third husband, Lewis Serrocold. Ruth can't say what's wrong, but she thinks something is wrong, so she wants her inquisitive friend Jane to check it out.īased on nothing more than that, Miss Marple is off. Ruth tells Jane that she is worried about her sister Carrie Louise, Miss Marple's other school friend.

Miss Jane Marple meets up with her old school friend, Ruth Van Rydock. of violence and chases 70% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 10% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 10% How society works & physical descript.They Do It With Mirrors is a 1952 mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript.