![]() ![]() The existence of a door now plastered over. She seems to know things about the house, as if she had visited it before. She finds the perfect house, which seems to draw her to it, but she keeps experiences odd little moments of seemingly psychic insight. Newly married Gwenda Reed was raised in New Zealand and has just arrived in England for the first time to look for a house for her and her husband, Giles. Sleeping Murder was published in 1976, after Agatha Christie’s death, but was actually written in 1940 during the Nazi blitz of London. ![]() ![]() ![]() (I will try not to overtly give away the identity if the murderer, but through the act of discussing both stories unintended spoilers might occur) I was curious if knowledge of the play would furnish extra clues pointing towards the murderer. Sleeping Murder is one of my favorite Miss Marple novels and I’ve long wanted to read the play. This was from John Webster’s play, “The Duchess of Malfi,” first performed in 1613, and is quoted in Agatha Christie’s Sleeping Murder. The second quotation that made a deep impression on me was: One quotation that made an early impression on me was the reference to the poem “The Lady of Shalott” in The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side (which was possibly based somewhat on a tragic incident involving Gene Tierney). Agatha Christie often liked to use lines from plays, nursery rhymes or poems as clues, plot-devices and titles for her books. ![]()
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