Certain she has heard it before, she ponders and then recalls that they met when they were both travelling in the West Indies and helped solve a crime and prevent a second murder. Miss Marple is reading the births, deaths and marriages in her newspaper when she stumbles across the name Rafiel. These facts aside, what we do know about Nemesis is that it is sort of a sequel to one of her earlier books, A Caribbean Mystery, sadly not featured on this blog as I read it before I started writing here, and had forgotten various names within. Despite the fact that Miss Marple was already an old lady in her 1930 debut, this book is clearly set nearer the time it was written, and yet Marple is still only in her seventies. “In the afternoon it was the custom of Miss Jane Marple to unfold her second newspaper.”īecause of the fact that Christie wrote for over fifty years, and her main characters tended not to age that much, there can be some confusion due to the timelines of her stories and disagreement about what year they’re supposed to be yet.
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