The idea of a dead body in the library was a typical of a detective story in the early twentieth century and Ms Christie presents it here as a “Variation on a well-known theme”. In the most conservative library of Colonel Bantry, a dead body of a young girl is found and to cook-up the mystery she has created a ... Read More »
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The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie| Book Review
“The Murder at the Vicarage” by Agatha Christie was first published in October, 1930. This is the first full-length adventure featuring Miss Jane Marple, the endearing old village woman with a knack for finding the truth about people by comparisons. Read More »
Miss Marple and the Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie| Book Review
First published in 1932, “Miss Marple & the Thirteen Problems” is the collection of short stories, each containing one unsolved mysterious crime. Read More »
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie |Book Review
Originally published as “Ten little Niggers”, and now available as “And Then There Were None” is one of the brightest pieces of Agatha Christie’s much-celebrated work. Read More »
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift | Book Review
First published in 1726, this collection of Lemuel Gulliver’s fascinating voyages all over the world, has been loved, read and re-read by every child and adult familiar with the English language. The story appealing the children for its fictional quotient made of wonderful creatures ranging in size from a few inches to several feet, flying island, etc. and to adults ... Read More »
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte | Book Review
“The Professor”, though first of the written works of Charlotte Bronte, was published in 1857 aftre her death. The novel had excited much curiosity because of its multiple rejections by publishers that made Charlotte finally wrote “Jane eyre”. “The Professor” is shortest of the tales by Charlotte but not incomplete, and is written with the same style of narrative and ... Read More »