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    They Do It With Mirrors: B2+
    They Do It With Mirrors: B2+
    They Do It With Mirrors: B2+
    Audiobook3 hours

    They Do It With Mirrors: B2+

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Jane Collingwood

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

    Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.

    There is a dangerous atmosphere at Stoneygates, a centre for young criminals. When Miss Marple visits her friend there, she can sense the danger, too. One evening during her stay someone shoots at the administrator of the centre. He is not injured, but a visiting relative is shot dead at the same time in another part of the building.

    Could this be a coincidence? Miss Marple must solve the mystery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateOct 5, 2017
    ISBN9780008267353
    They Do It With Mirrors: B2+
    Author

    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 4/5
      Miss Marple meets up with an old school friend, who asks her to check in on her sister because she's worried that something's just not quite right. Miss Marple agrees and pays a visit to said sister, who is also an old school friend, and who now lives with her third husband at the halfway home he runs for young reforming criminal types. As it turns out, it seems that someone may be trying to poison the sister, and Miss Marple is, of course, on the case.As usual, Christie gives us lots of red herrings and a myriad of characters and possible motives. And again, as usual, it took me nearly the whole book to suss out the culprit. Thoroughly enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Loved re-reading this yesterday. Satisfying! So neatly thought through to the last detail.
    • 3/5
      Great way to spend a lazy afternoon.... book was extraordinary, but just simple a pleasant "listen".
    • 3/5
      Another Christie novel narrated by Emilia Fox, available on Hoopla.I read this (perhaps under another title?) years ago in middle school. I didn't remember any of it, even while listening. I enjoyed this one quite a bit. Everything in this story is relevant. Miss Marple is visiting an old school friend, the visit arranged by another school friend who thinks something is off at Carrie Anne's home. There is she and her husband, her daughter, the daughter of her late adopted daughter, two stepsons by her previous husband, her loyal servant, and a stepson by her current husband comes to visit. There are also various boys from the delinquent's school they run on site. SO when Mr Gulbrandson--her husband's son--is shot and killed, who killed him, and why?Miss Marple is her usual dithery self. And the solution is clever--and there are hints throughout. One of her better novels.
    • 4/5
      Wealthy school friend Ruth asks Miss Marple to go visit Ruth's sister Carol Anne. Also wealthy and currently married to a man determined to find a cure for criminal behavior in young men, Carol Anne has always been rather dreamy and aloof, yet she is surrounded by people who adore her. At any time there is her housekeeper, granddaughter, two step sons and various troubled young men hanging about the house, all trying to make Carol Anne comfortable and happy, even when Carol Anne's former step son, staying over just one night, winds up dead. I place this one right in the middle of the pack of Christies. Unusual plot, yet with that beautiful yet callous young woman who seems to worm her way through so many Christies.
    • 4/5
      An old school friend asks Miss Marple to visit her sister, about whom she's quite worried. When Miss Marple arrives at Stonygates, a country house with a young offenders institution attached, she is thrown into the complicated relationships of an extended family, and it isn't long before a murder is committed. Luckily, Miss Marple is at hand to prevent a possible miscarriage of justice from being carried out.I agree with one or two other reviewers that the solution was quite easy to spot, especially if one is familiar with the way Agatha Christie's mind works. It is true that she does quite well to throw in false clues and red herrings so that I wavered in my resolution more than once. Not all of the plot line is convincing, but as ever Ms Christie's novels and stories prove a diverting read that exercises those *little grey cells*.
    • 3/5
      While I enjoyed this entry in the Miss Marple series, it was just "good" not great as some of Christie's are. Given Miss Marple's oft pronounced maxim of never believe anything anyone says without confirmation, she seemed to take Lewis Serrocold's statements at face value for far too long.
    • 3/5
      When Miss Marple's old school friend, Ruth, asks Miss Marple to check in on Ruth's sister, Carrie Louise, at her estate, Miss Marple is only too happy to comply. Upon arrival at Stonygates, Miss Marple must agree with Ruth that something odd is in the air at the estate beyond the strangeness that results from it also being home to an institute for delinquent boys and young men. When one of Carrie Louise's relatives is murdered, it becomes even clearer that something is afoot at Stonygates and it is up to Miss Marple to figure it out.Agatha Christie is always a reliably solid read and this entry in the Miss Marple series is no exception. However, I have to admit that it didn't knock my socks off quite the same way as the prior Miss Marple. I think some of the reason that I was underwhelmed was that I figured out who did it relatively early on and thus was deprived of the usual surprise. Nonetheless, an enjoyable read.
    • 5/5
      Nice, neat little Miss Marple mystery. Miss Marple is asked by an old friend from her school days to check up on the friend's sister, who is now a remarried widow, living at her estate. Her second husband has turned the estate into an institution for the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents. But, something odd and sinister seems to lurk, not in the dormitories, but in the manor house itself. When a trustee of the institution is murdered while staying in the house, Miss Marple's detective skills come into play to catch the murderer before he or she strikes again.
    • 4/5
      This is one of Christie's shorter novels at just over 200 pages, but it's tauter than some, and the setting is slightly more unusual - a reform home for young criminals. This is the first Miss Marple novel I have read, and she played a less prominent role than Poirot does, advising on the sidelines but not taking part in the setpiece interview scenes with the cast of suspects as does the Belgian. She is dismissed as a slightly dotty old lady by some of the younger characters, who think she can never have been young ("To youth it seems very odd to think that age was once young and pigtailed and struggled with decimals and English literature."), but naturally she later gains the respect of all. The ending was quite dramatic and unexpected (to me, anyway). One minor point that has struck me in this and a couple of her other novels is the characters in each of them who are dismissive of Italian people in general as liars who are prone to violence, which is a bit odd.
    • 3/5
      Miss Marple is asked to look into trouble at a home for juvenile delinquents, which also involves a wealthy family.
    • 3/5
      Alright. She's done much better. None of the characters stand out which is unusual and (what I think goes hand in hand with that) there's no trace of the humour I've come to love in Christie's books. I knew who the murderer was as soon as the murder was committed and that never bothers me but since the characters are so bland there was nothing much left to enjoy. Still very readable but infinitely forgettable too.
    • 5/5
      Could hardly fault this - straightforward good crime novel, with dollops of rather brilliantly observed character. I'd forgotten how spot-on AC could be. Of course it's all done, well, with mirrors, and smoke, and the denouement is the sort of huge surprise that's so surprising you should have guessed who, if not why; but crisply done. A Miss Marple story, btw.
    • 3/5
      He purely loves Agatha Christie, personally she's okay, but... Miss Marple though - I do like the way that lady thinks.
    • 4/5
      Classic Ms. Marple -- what's not to love?
    • 2/5
      My wife reads Agatha Christie. Loves them, actually. Me, I think 'And Then There Were None' and 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' are two of the greatest detective novels ever penned, but every other time I've tried a Christie I've been left a little cold.Still, I thought I'd give 'Mirrors' a go, and I liked the setting, a couple of the characters, but I guessed the murderer as the murder was taking place and spent the rest of the book thinking I had been well and truly fooled, tricked into suspecting the wrong person, only to discover that there was no twist, I was right all along.Which was a shame.The killer was the only person it COULD be.After experiencing the breathtaking revelations of the aforementioned classics, at the end of 'Mirrors' I just kind of shrugged and said 'Huh.'If this was an early Ellery Queen novel there would be a Challenge to the Reader that would say, simply: I challenge the reader to NOT solve this one.
    • 3/5
      After a plea from a worried sister, Jane Marple arrives at Stonygates to investigate into the affairs of an old school chum, Carrie Louise. Her sister doesn’t know exactly what is going on, but feels that something is very wrong at this country estate. It doesn’t take Jane long to realize she is right. With murder and poisonings happening around her, she is very worried indeed.They Do It With Mirrors is a solid offering from Agatha Christie that I enjoyed, but found a little plodding and predictable. Both the setting and the cast of characters were rather unbelievable and the book in whole felt rather dated. Usually as you read an Agatha Christie you get a strong sense of the enjoyment and relish she takes in her work, but that was missing in this book.If you are a fan of Miss Christie’s work, then I would say go ahead with this book. But if you are a first time reader I would suggest starting somewhere else.
    • 3/5
      Nice little problem for Miss Marple. Maybe not one of her best but when you know what happened it's fun to watch the misdirection!
    • 5/5
      I have a serious soft spot for this Miss Marple mystery. Our twinkly sleuth is planted in a group home for juvenile delinquents to investigate what's up with her old school friend Carrie Louise, who's married to the head of the school. The mystery itself here is nothing special -- it's a variation on a closed-room job -- but what's interesting is Christie's other not-so-hidden agenda. That is, much of the book is a kind of satire on modern methods of criminal rehabilitation. It's fascinating how many of the tedious tropes of contemporary educational/psychological theory are already in the crosshairs here, especially the assumption that self-esteem is sacred. Christie has no time whatever for this, and lets the reader know in numerous ways . . . .
    • 4/5
      An old friend of Miss Marples and a murder at Stony Gates school.
    • 4/5
      Not my favourite Miss Marple, but still an enjoyable read.
    • 3/5
      I have said previously that sometimes Miss Marple gives me the creeps, but in this book I found her character very likable. I would say it is one of the better Miss Marple mysteries I've read, however, I'm only half finished with them! I enjoyed the ending as well.