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Trying to redeem myself after my Valentine's Day disappointment and going for simplicity: Degas, Julie de Graag, and snowflake rabbits.
Feb. 18th, 2022
All of Agatha: Three Act Tragedy
Feb. 18th, 2022 07:44 pmI am still in 1934 with Agatha Christie's ouvre. Three Act Tragedy is a novel I remember well. It has an actor (Sir Charles Cartwright) and Mister Satterthwaite (from the Harley Quinn stories) and Hercule Poirot. It wasn't an especially good story. It was a bit drawn-out and exceptionally cruel when you get to the Denouement Parlor. And Ol' Aggie is sort of showing her prejudices and class consciousness.
Crow's Nest was a modern bungalow of the better type. Yeah, Aggie, we know, it's hard to get servants these days, so you need appliances.
One of the murder victims is 'a well-known specialist in nervous disorders' and his name is Doctor Strange. (Which is right up there with Dorothy L. Sayers calling her Doctor Freke, pronounced Freak). I kept thinking of Bertie Wooster and Sir Roderick Glossop and the scene where they put all the cats in Bertie's bedroom with the fish.
There are a lot of references to actors always acting whether they're on or off stage. I don't know if that's true or not. In this world of reality television, I sometimes wonder if there are people who are always performing.
Some eye-rolling lines. Aggie! Really?!
There was a womanish strain in his [Satterthwaite's] character which lent him insight to the feminine mind.
And I read somewhere that this line was a very classist stab at Josephine Tey.
Mister Satterthwaite thought: "Poor soul. Cut off by success from her spiritual home--a boarding-house in Bournemouth."
Next up! We go up in the air with Death in the Clouds. I have put in a request for the large print, paper book version which I've found I like best.
Crow's Nest was a modern bungalow of the better type. Yeah, Aggie, we know, it's hard to get servants these days, so you need appliances.
One of the murder victims is 'a well-known specialist in nervous disorders' and his name is Doctor Strange. (Which is right up there with Dorothy L. Sayers calling her Doctor Freke, pronounced Freak). I kept thinking of Bertie Wooster and Sir Roderick Glossop and the scene where they put all the cats in Bertie's bedroom with the fish.
There are a lot of references to actors always acting whether they're on or off stage. I don't know if that's true or not. In this world of reality television, I sometimes wonder if there are people who are always performing.
Some eye-rolling lines. Aggie! Really?!
There was a womanish strain in his [Satterthwaite's] character which lent him insight to the feminine mind.
And I read somewhere that this line was a very classist stab at Josephine Tey.
Mister Satterthwaite thought: "Poor soul. Cut off by success from her spiritual home--a boarding-house in Bournemouth."
Next up! We go up in the air with Death in the Clouds. I have put in a request for the large print, paper book version which I've found I like best.