By the Pricking of My Thumbs audiobook

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 29 :- APRIL 20214 STARS

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence, #4), Agatha ChristieIn Book 4 Tuppence has recovered. An old doll she found in the mysterious house turns out to contain uncut diamonds. A party is arranged in Sutton Chancellor. Sir Phillip Starke, the local landowner, and Mrs Boscowan are invited. Tuppence has the impression that Sir Phillip knows more about the whole affair. The next day Tuppence goes to the vicarage and confronts Miss Bligh, who she suspects was the one who hit her on the head.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیستم ماه آوریل سال 2009میلادیعنوان: عروسکی در دودکش بخاری؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: عفت شجاع بختیاری؛ تهران، میلاد، 1374؛ در 344ص؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان انگلیسی - سده 20مسوزش سرانگشتان یا (عروسکی در دودکش بخاری) رمان جنایی سال 1968میلادی، نوشته ی روانشاد بانو «آگاتا کریستی» است، که قهرمان‌های آن یک زوج کاراگاه و ماجراجو، به نام‌های «تامی» و «تاپـِنس» هستنددر کتاب چهارم از سری «تامی و تاپنس»؛ معلوم میشود، یک عروسک کهنه، که در خانه ی مرموز پیدا شده، دارای الماس تراش نخورده ای است، یک میهمانی ترتیب داده شده، که «سر فیلیپ استارکه»، صاحب زمینهای محلی، و خانم «بوسکووان» نیز دعوت شده اند؛ «تاپنس» خیال میکند که «سر فیلیپ» در مورد کل ماجرا، بیشتر میدانند؛ روز بعد «تاپنس» با «میس بلی»، که گمان میکند کسی بوده، که به سر او برخورده، روبرو میشود؛ و ...؛تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 17/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

This is the first Tommy and Tuppence series I have read but it definitely won't be the last. By The Pricking Of My Thumbs offers the sense of adventure, wit and charm from the main characters, husband and wife duo, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Beresford. This novel possesses a chilling tone that intensifies as the story progresses. There are practically no dead bodies, only the shady disappearance of an old lady. The story finds Tuppence interested in a painting of a country house that is inherited from Tommy's aunt. Convinced that she has seen the original subject, she decides to track it down. When she does, she stumbles into stories of a series of unsolved child murders that occurred in the district many years before. The novel is filled with neat mixture of characters and the plot is very original, with an ending you will never be able to guess (trust me on this). The very nature of the ending comes as a great shock to me, as it is completely unexpected and terrific! The entire novel, in fact, carries an underlying tone of omnipresent evil, foreboding and fear, which serves to create a wonderful atmosphere. A definite must-read for any mystery fan, especially Agatha Christie fans!! I am going to check out the other Tommy and Tuppence series.

This was an incredibly chilling mystery; I had the cover image and the creepy, insane mutterings of the killer burnt into my mind and preventing me from falling asleep. Scary.Agatha Christie has produced yet another brilliant mystery, one that is intense and possesses gripping tension throughout the entire novel as the detectives attempt to solve the puzzle. Tommy and Tuppence are back again, now very much advanced in age, but still as spirited as ever. The light romance between the two is very sweet, particularly considering their old-couple status.

My first Tommy and Tuppence story. An elderly happily married couple who get into some pickles. This story about the aging Aunt Ada and them meeting Mrs Lancashire in her retirement home starts an adventure. Tuppence looks for and finds a house by a canal in a painting there aunt leaves them. The house has some strange inhabitants and Tuppence is curious about the house history and gets drawn into a mystery with a surprise ending. Criminal gangs, child murders, a secret room, jewels and some odd characters add to the atmosphere. The story ends with a great twist.

A este libro no he podido darle el progreso porque sencillamente no he estado mucho en casa que es de donde tengo conexión pero: Ha sido un maravilloso reencuentro con Agatha Christie Mallowan, nuevos personajes e investigadores, los esposos Beresford que son una delicia, tampoco sabes nunca quién es el criminal como nos tiene acostumbrados la autora, una lectura llena de cosas por descubrír siempre con ese estilo muy inglés, yo diría con ese tono algo bucólico. Me ha encantado. Una lectura para pasar un buen rato.

Reading, or in this case listening to Agatha Christie's crime novels are like comfort food to me, after some time I forget about motive and can start all over again. And always a joy to listen to Hugh Fraser's excellent narration.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are the quintessential British married couple -- and what a delight they are, both as everyday individuals and "adventurers." "Adventures" being the euphemism the couple use to describe their various sleuthing deeds over the years.This time around, Tuppence goes off on her own while Tommy attends an annual conference. Tuppence, as Tommy both fondly and exasperatedly describes her, is like a terrier on a trail or after a scent once she puts her mind to something. In By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Tuppence is determined to find the actual house seen in a painting and to find an elderly woman, Mrs. Lancaster, whom Tuppence is sure may be in harm's way.A nice mystery all the way around with the usual red herrings that so appropriately leave the reveal of whodunit to the last pages.

"Time goes a different pace in different places. Some places you come back to, and you feel that time has been busting along at a terrific rate and that all sorts of things will have happened - and changed."I enjoyed this so much! I was weirdly emotional at seeing Tommy and Tuppence all grown up and successful. The mystery was intriguing, and I didn't see the final reveal coming. (also, genuinely got chills a couple of times in that final reveal OOF it was good) 4 stars from me!"All right," said Tuppence. "Where are you starting?""I'm starting with your being coshed on the head." said Tommy. Tuppence considered a moment."I don't see really that that's a starting point. I mean, it's the last thing that happened, not the first.""Well it's the first in my mind," said Tommy. "I won't have people coshing my wife."((they're so precious i can't))

Four stars primarily for my love of Tommy and Tuppence - the rest is a bit all over the place, to say the least. I'd hoped this would be a mystery based in the old ladies' home, with more participation by said old ladies. It was not that - in fact it was pretty much everything else except that. And I do mean *everything* else.But what's not to love about Tommy and Tuppence? The best thing about them being that they age by leaps and bounds with every new book in the series. I only wish there were more than five, because now I have only one to go.

Como siempre, Agatha consigue crear un ambiente de lo más siniestro con situaciones domésticas y aparentemente inofensivas. Ella misma dijo que las historias más macabras se le ocurrían mientras fregaba los platos. Y se nota.No es necesario crear escenarios retorcidos. Con tener una mente retorcida es suficiente. Por eso siempre la consideraré como una maestra del género.

Published in the year Christie turned 78, this 1968 novel is both quite astonishing and quite predictable. Astonishing in its characterization; predictable in its plot.To once again use Tommy and Tuppence Beresford as her detectives was quite an unexpected turn for the septuagenarian. After sparkling up a novel and several short stories in the 1920s, their only other appearance was in the 1941 novel N or M?. And not only does she bring them back, but she ages them! Poirot seems to have been permanently retired throughout all of his appearances, and Miss Marple was never other than a quintessentially little old lady. But now the brash young adventurers from 1922’s The Secret Adversary are a stolid bourgeois couple with married children and grandchildren. Still, the never-less-than-totally charming effervescence of Tuppence and the quite uncanny mental leaps with which Tommy can patch together disparate pieces of evidence are totally undiminished. A good part of the mystery in this book is almost exactly the same as that in At Bertram’s Hotel. In both, a highly organized criminal conspiracy is responsible for a series of brazen robberies. They even rob the Irish mail train in both books! Rather than using a London hotel as their base of operations, an isolated house in the rural backwater of Sutton Chancellor serves as a drop off point for their ill-gotten plunder. Instead of the kindly but absentminded Canon Pennyfather from the hotel, there is the dotty personage of Mrs. Lancaster. They both go missing and provide Christie’s sleuths with a starting point from which to ferret out the truth of the operation.I can even hear Ariadne Oliver declaiming about her mystery-writing process in Tuppence’s realization that ‘We’ve got a hold of a lot of things. It’s as bad as a village jumble sale. All sorts of facts. Far too many facts. And not only facts. Hearsay, suggestions, legend, gossip. The whole thing is like a bran tub with different kind of parcels wrapped up and shoved down in the sawdust.’ The veritable plethora of such details shows Christie had lost none of her penchant for the seemingly extraneous: a charming painting, a cosh on the head, a series of child murders, a mysterious landowner, a house divided in a most peculiar way, overdoses of morphine at a seniors’ home, diamonds stuffed into a rag doll, whether a child’s body was stuffed behind a fireplace.The final solution, although fraught with a thoroughly suspenseful climax, leaves a bit to be desired as the overlapping of the seemingly unconnected robbery and murder crimes is not all that convincingly explained. Still, it was a thorough pleasure to read of Tommy and Tuppence one last time.Recommended.