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Ordeal by Innocence doc ç Paperback ¼ hannahredhead Î Nuori Jack Argyle on saanut elinkautisen vankeustuomion Oikeudenkäynnissä on osoitettu että hän on surmannut äitinsä hiilihangolla Puolen vuoden vankilassaolon jälkeen Jack kuolee keuhkokuumeeseen Argylen perhettä painanut raskas taakka on poissa – kunnesAolon jälkeen Jack kuolee keuhkokuumeeseen Argylen perhettä painanut raskas taakka on poissa – kunnes kuvaan ilmaantuu tuntematon tohtori CalgaryCalgary tod EXCERPT Calgary came to the end of the nice new road with the nice new houses on either side of it each with its eighth of an acre of garden; rock plants chrysanthemums roses salvias geraniums each owner displaying his or her individual garden tasteAt the end of the road was a gate with SUNNY POINT in Gothic letters on it He opened the gate passed through and went along a short drive The house was there ahead of him a well built characterless modern house gabled and porched It might have stood on any good class suburban site or a new development anywhere It was unworthy in Calgary's opinion of its view For the view was magnificent The river here curved sharply round the point almost turning back on itself Wooded hills rose opposite; upstream to the left was a further bend in the river with meadows and orchards in the distance Calgary looked for a moment up and down the river One should have built a castle here he thought an impossible ridiculous fairy tale castle The sort of castle that might be made of gingerbread or frosted sugar Instead there was good taste restraint moderation plenty of money and absolutely no imagination For that naturally one did not blame the Argyles They had only bought the house not built it Stillthey or one of them Mrs Argyle had chosen itHe said to himself 'You can't put it off any longer' and pressed the electric bell beside the door ABOUT THIS BOOK Recovering from amnesia Dr Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle The victim was Jacko's own mother and to make matters worse he died in prison But the young man's innocence means that someone else killed the Argyle matriarch and would certainly kill again to remain in the shadows Shaded in the moral ambiguity of murder the provocative psychological puzzler of guilt vengeance and blood secrets is among Agatha Christie's personal favoritesMY THOUGHTS I was excited to discover I thought a Christie that I hadn't previously read But once I got into it I realized that I had previously read it and had also seen the TV adaptation and a very good one it was too But not to worry as I couldn't remember 'whodunit'So I got to read and enjoy this stand alone mystery all over again And to be wrong all over again about just who the murderer was A delightful 😍😍😍😍 murder mysteryTHE AUTHOR Agatha Christie is the best selling author of all time She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections fourteen plays and several other books Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple and author of The Mousetrap the longest running play in the history of modern theatre Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Toruay Devon England UK as the youngest of three The Millers had two other children Margaret Frary Miller 1879–1950 called Madge who was eleven years Agatha's senior and Louis Montant Miller 1880–1929 called Monty ten years older than Agatha During the First World War she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy a job that influenced her work as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poisonOn Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps The couple had one daug