Monthly dose of Christie

60. WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (includes one Poirot story)
A collection of short stories with surprising endings. Apparently, this is a US collection so most of the stories appeared in other (UK) collections that I have already read. Oh, well.

Memorable quotes:
-"We go through life like a train rushing through the darkness to an unknown destination."

Favourite Guest Character: Mortimer Cleveland from S.O.S.
Favourite Stories: Witness for the Prosecution
Mystery: **
Final Solution: ****
Entertainment: ***
9/15


59. POSTERN OF FATE (Tommy & Tuppence)
T&T are getting old and they decide to buy an old house in the countryside. In that house they find a mystery message that leads to lots of gossiping, long discussions and a new murder. With the help of a bengal tiger a murder case is finally solved.

Memorable quotes:
-"People did have foreign nurses - what were called Mamoselles as well as Frowlines, whatever a Frowline is."
-"Well, I suppose when you buy an old house there's always something wrong with it."
-"When you talk about old friends, either they are dead, which surprises you enormously because you didn't think they would be, or else they're not dead and that surprises you even more."
-"I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise."

Favourite Guest Character: Hmmm. Hannibal?
Mystery: **
Final Solution: *
Entertainment: **
5/15


58. THE CLOCKS (A little bit of Poirot)
A typist is called to a house only to find a dead body and several clocks all showing 4:13. Did any of the neighbours notice anything? Police loses one clock and Poirot solves the case without visiting the murder scene.

Memorable quotes:
-"... the unlikely happened more often than one would be disposed to believe."
-"Only six happy days in the year for a woman. The first and the last days of the holidays."
-"He's not dead. But I have a feeling he's bored. That's worse."

Favourite Guest Character: Colin Lamb
Mystery: ****
Final Solution: **
Entertainment: ***
9/15