The Four Suspects
Author: Agatha Christie
The Tuesday Night Club members are sitting at a dinner party relating strange and mysterious stories, when the conversation switches to unsolved or undiscovered crimes. The group finally turns to Sir Henry Clithering who is a former Commissioner of Scotland Yard. Do crimes ever go totally unpunished or undetected is the group's main question. Sir Henry gives his answer by telling a story about a murder that had four suspects. All could be guilty....but only one suspect did the deed. The truth of the deed has to come out, or all four suspects will live under the shadow of perceived guilt. Can the Tuesday Night Club ferret out the truth behind Sir Henry's story?
The Four Suspects is the 9th story about the Tuesday Night Club, a group of friends that gather to share stories about crimes or mysterious happenings. One member tells a story....and the others have to figure out the truth. The stories are short with little in the way of character or setting development. This is by design. The stories are meant to be simple, quick one-minute mystery sort of tales.
The Four Suspects was first published in 1930 in the Story-Teller Magazine in the UK and Pictoral Review in the US. It was later included in the short story collection, The 13 Problems.
I listened to an audio book version of this story read by Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the television series from 1984-1992. I like listening to the story while I read....makes it more enjoyable to hear the right accents and correct pronunciations of any foreign words or place names. So I listened to Joan read while I read from my HB copy of Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories.
Another entertaining quick mystery featuring Miss Marple! I'm loving these stories!
On to the next: A Christmas Tragedy!
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