![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The darkest mystery is ironically the last, as this is the final volume of the Tommy and Tuppence series (published in 1968). ![]() Intrigued by a love of Christie’s Miss Marple and Poirot mysteries, discovering this little gem at the library, I decided that it was time to branch into even more Christie series. It’s Christie at her most serious and best. Populated with quaint antique houses, musty village gossip, and a last hurray for the overly independent Tuppence, By the Pricking of My Thumbs combines classic, gothic horror with hard boiled sleuthing and even the odd dosage of humor. Beginning with a dismal visit to the nursing home to see Tommy’s cantankerous aunt, Tuppence discovers a lonely old lady, a picture, and the unremitting intrigue of an unsolved mystery. Strangely cozy at the same time as it is chilling, this Agatha Christie offering, written later in her life, is a dark mystery for the husband and wife duo – Tommy and Tuppence. Rating: A Ghostly Mystery and Tuppence’s Last Adventureįriendly witches, houses riddled with secret passageways, fireplace flues blocked by old, abandoned children’s toys, and a series of long-ago but never forgotten child murders imbue By the Pricking of My Thumbs with a sinister, addictive atmosphere. ![]()
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