By Agatha Christie
The first of the Miss Marple novels.
Encyclopedia Brown borrows a lot from this book. Each chapter is mystery with clues. Miss Marple solves the mystery at the end.
The time and place where these mysteries were written has changed so much that it's nearly impossible to understand, let alone solve some of the mysteries.
In one mystery a clue is that someone who is banting would not have eaten trifle and that truffle is served with hundreds and thousands, which are pink and white sugar things.
In another mystery, a clue is that a gardener was working on Whitmonday-- something normal gardeners never do. You are tipped off that about Whitmonday because at the beginning of the story, the lead character tells you it's Whitsuntide.
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