Wednesday 3 September 2008

The queen of murder


performance number 22,461. that says it all.
as a writer struggling with the limits of imagination, i wonder what she had to do to come up with such ingenious tales.
you might shrug her off as plain paperback fiction, but you can never deny her the skill of storytelling.
which is obviously lost in some of the more 'famed' writers of our day.

i narrate a few that i happened to read recently.
hickory dickory dock, where a case of supposed kleptomania leads to a much larger mayhem of murder.
towards zero, where a group of people on holiday are only the pawns in a more dangerous game.
and then there were none, where ten people, unknown to each other, have one thing in common-murder.

she might not have written literature of the highest order, but christie certainly managed to convince her readers that as far as the killing of another human being goes, there is nothing short of a motive.
god knows what would happen if she ever committed a murder?
a perfect crime?
maybe.

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