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Summary: The 'Accidental' Murders
Review: This is one of Christie's delightful books which later came on TV as the popular 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' It features the amateur detectives Bobby and Frankie, the latter known to the world as the most unlikely Lady Francis Derwent. She's the daughter of an earl, and this rather fortunate circumstance gets the lady an entry into houses where the more plebian Bobby can enter only as a chaffeur. 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' A handsome stranger with a photo of a hauntingly beautiful girl in his pocket, falls off a cliffside and dies with these rather mysterious words even as Bobby stands guard over him while his friend goes for help. The woman who turns up as the original of that photo, a heavily made-up, rather coarse woman, makes Bobby wonder at the cruelty of age that can destroy such beauty, till he realises that this is a different woman and that the photo has been changed. Things begin happening soon after that. An attempt on Bobby's life makes the gutsy, thirsting for-excitement Frankie suspicious and together they decide to get to the bottom of this mystery. By staging a mock-accident themselves, Frankie tries to get "a line on" the main culprit only to find herself succumbing to the charm of this young man who soon becomes more of a friend than enemy. When Bobby suddenly comes upon the original of the photograph in the grounds of an asylum, things start getting real warm. Written with the usual Christie elan, The Boomerang Clue has twists and turns on almost every page and keeps you hooked till the perplexing riddle is solved, which is probably not saying very much, since most Christies are unutdownable anyway. A very satisfying read, with more than one murder, and an ambience that threatens many more. Despite the crime and the suspense, the plucky humour of Frankie, though often at Bobby's expense, keeps the novel from getting too dark.
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Summary: WHAT THE READER BELOW DOES NOT KNOW
Review: When Sipram, from Calcutta, wrote that "'This is one of Christie's delightful books which later came on TV as the popular 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' " he or she does not know that the original title is "Why didn't they ask Evans?", and that it was printed in England in 1934, and that the name of this book for the american edition of this book is "The boomerang clue". It's been translated into Spanish as "Trayectoria de Boomerang". I've read it in Spanish, and it's absolutely marvelous.
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Summary: WHAT THE READER BELOW DOES NOT KNOW
Review: When Sipram, from Calcutta, wrote that "'This is one of Christie's delightful books which later came on TV as the popular 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' " he or she does not know that the original title is "Why didn't they ask Evans?", and that it was printed in England in 1934, and that the name of this book for the american edition of this book is "The boomerang clue". It's been translated into Spanish as "Trayectoria de Boomerang". I've read it in Spanish, and it's absolutely marvelous.
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