![]() While watching the play The Duchess of Malfi, when the line “Cover her face mine eyes dazzle she died young” is spoken, Gwenda screams out she saw an image of herself at the top of the stairs viewing through the stair banisters a man at the bottom of the stairs at her house saying those words while strangling a blonde-haired woman named Helen. ![]() Gwenda goes to London to visit her relatives, the author Raymond West, his wife, and his aunt, Miss Jane Marple. She discovers that she knows things about the house that she could not have known (that there used to be steps going down from the terrace). Gwenda finds a house that feels like home in Dillmouth named Hillside, and stays while workmen are doing renovations. Gwenda Reed is newlywed, and is traveling ahead of her husband to find a house in the south of England she and he were both raised in New Zealand her mother died when she was an infant, and her father died some years after that. I very much enjoyed this book, and was totally unable to discern the hook. ![]() ![]() This book is the twelfth and last novel featuring our favorite old lady detective from St Mary Mead, Miss Jane Marple it is the last novel to be released (after Agatha Christie’s death), but is set in 1944. ![]()
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