Actually it's only very recently that I've managed to do any reading at all, unless you count Strawberry Shortcake and Petit Ours Brun. I've put Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts to one side for the moment, having got as far as Swabia in Germany as it then was and now is once again.
The two books I have read are Third Girl and The Thirteen Problems, both by a certain Agatha Christie. The former is not perhaps vintage Christie but it is still unmistakably the work of a genius. It is also interesting for being written against the background of the Swinging Sixties. Dame Agatha leaves us in no doubt as to her views on the Permissive Society! By my reckoning Hercule Poirot must have been well into his nineties by this time.
The Thirteen Problems are all solved by Miss Marple. I don't quite know why it is but I have a very vivid picture in my mind's eye of what Miss Marple looks like.
Certainly nothing like Margaret Rutherford or Joan Hickson:
For me the ideal Miss Marple would have been Barbara Mullen who played the housekeeper Janet in Dr Finlay's Casebook. Curiously enough, she did actually play Miss Marple in the West End adaptation of Murder at the Vicarage.
Do you agree with me?
The two books I have read are Third Girl and The Thirteen Problems, both by a certain Agatha Christie. The former is not perhaps vintage Christie but it is still unmistakably the work of a genius. It is also interesting for being written against the background of the Swinging Sixties. Dame Agatha leaves us in no doubt as to her views on the Permissive Society! By my reckoning Hercule Poirot must have been well into his nineties by this time.
The Thirteen Problems are all solved by Miss Marple. I don't quite know why it is but I have a very vivid picture in my mind's eye of what Miss Marple looks like.
Certainly nothing like Margaret Rutherford or Joan Hickson:
For me the ideal Miss Marple would have been Barbara Mullen who played the housekeeper Janet in Dr Finlay's Casebook. Curiously enough, she did actually play Miss Marple in the West End adaptation of Murder at the Vicarage.
Do you agree with me?
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ReplyDeleteFor me it will always be Joan Hickson, and I remember how pleased I was when the television wallahs "got it right". The Good Lord alone knows why they've had to get it so spectacularly wrong since then - Julia Mackenzie, tsk ... - why tinker at all, anyway?
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ReplyDeleteThank you, Major. I heard the first time, actually. I presume by "No" you mean "Yes"?
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