The Affair at the Bungalow: A Miss Marple Short Story

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The police had received a phone call, apparently from the mistress of the house, saying that Leslie had been seen leaving the bungalow via a window. However Miss Kerr later denies making the call and, when he sees the real Jane Helier, Leslie admits that she was not the woman he met in the house. The question is — who stole the jewels and why did they go to the trouble of creating this elaborate deception? The various guests consider the case and come up with several suggestions, but none that fully explain all of the facts.

Eventually they turn to Miss Marple, but even she confesses herself at a loss. Until, that is, a comment from Dr Lloyd puts her in mind of Mrs Pebmarsh, one of her famous village parallels…. Who is Mrs Pebmarsh? Which is more than I did! But the story is available as a Kindle single or as part of The Thirteen Problems collection.

Oh I do love Agatha Christie. I read that collection and agree that Agatha Christie was indeed the mistress of the novel and the short story. Every so often I crave one of her short story collections. I love all AC, but Miss Marple is my favourite. But the Joan Hickson ones are still the best! One of my most favourite writers, as you know. I completely agree with you about Joan Hickson — the definitive Miss Marple! It was one of those random things like they send around on Facebook except this one was floating around by itself.

And as for actors portraying Miss Marple? Yes, the Joan Hickson adaptations are still the best. I was so thrilled when I heard Julia McKenzie was to do them since I love her — but they messed with the stories so badly that I can barely watch them. I wish they would assume that AC knew what she was doing and leave the stories as they were written! Her books helped me learn Portuguese. Apparently, she was a character in her own right, as well. I may start calling her that myself! I think it was a movie rather than a TV version. But it tends to turn up quite often on cable channels….

We do not have TV right now. Cable is more than we can manage at the moment, and we live almost off the grid. Definitely beyond the reach of antennas. I hardly watch TV and often wonder why I bother with all the cable channels — so that I can watch tennis, I suppose! Well, around here it is basically baseball, football and basketball. And that is not my list.

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In case you were wondering. Used to like bowling and mini golf, though. You know can we still be friends when you see what comes next …. I was far too busy reading Dostoievsky. This does sound nicely tongue in cheek, from your nicely ironic excerpts. Well I was firmly into the great classics and serious modern writing from a fairly tender age, as my mum was a stupendous reader, and I rather grew up in high culture.

Both school and Uni lagged behind in their appreciation of writing outside English literature though — European was pretty well ignored, and as for writing from other continents….. But then I was pretty leftie at that point! Yes, indeed — English authors got priority throughout my education too, with even less justification… och, aye!

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Well I do agree with that judging something against itself and pleasures come in many different forms. And would 5 star it because it does what it means to brilliantly. And I got great pleasure when I thought it would be a good illustration of something and found a clip. Next week is a whole new week of flickers.

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I start small, then its gif ahoy! I might flicker tomorrow — just because I can! Encouraging others to talk about this embarrassing problem? A piece about tennis, the challenges of playing on different surfaces nicely illustrated by gifs of Rafa plucking at his nether region hugging shorts? And the problem is both of them have short deadlines with the publisher releasing only a couple of weeks in advance.

I guess, you know, that pro reviewers probably feel like that a lot — when anything, even self- imposed gets to sometimes seem like an obligation. TCM are running marathon film noir sessions to go along with the course. So I might — if I actually get around to doing the course — have a little series of film reviews. Part of the course is supposed to be to make us recognise noir tropes etc and discuss the films in a more educated way, so it might be fun to see whether my reviews get better — or duller!

But when I signed up for it I forgot it would be conflicting with the tennis…. Who are TCM — I automatically think only of Traditional Chinese Medicine and am surprised that the society of Acupuncturists is diversifying into film criticism. Are there many noir films involving fiendish Acupuncturists — well we know of course there is Goldfinger, cats are definitely fiendish Acupuncturists.

One of mine practices regularly on the sofa…….. I shall look forward hugely to blog posts dripping with smoke, shades, French accents, black and white footage and black and white blood stains. There must be films where this combines with a tennis theme……….

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I normally only watch about one film a month! However, some of the films on their schedule look quite fun. You are quite right well done the tennis. I love the original version of that……….. Of course, she wrote over 70 books, so you might have to add them all, and change your name to Cathy! Not sure anyone can ever top her. I love the Margaret Rutherford films, though they had almost nothing to do with Miss Marple except the name. But the Hickson versions are the best — not just because of her performance, but the whole thing — sticking close to the stories, great casting etc etc….

I am sure that I am in a minority here in having preferred the Poirot stories, but I do like the Marple stories as well. And on TV, the Marples starring Ms. Hickson might have been the better adaptations in many cases. Later on, they started changing the plots of the Marple stories for TV, and I think that they even put Miss Marple in a few stories where she originally was not! When you sit down with an Agatha Christie short story, you know that it will be engrossing and well plotted; good old-fashioned reading pleasure.

This one certainly seems to fit that description. I think David Suchet was brilliant at the Poirots too, and certainly the early ones of those stuck fairly well to the plots. I think that I have a very good memory, and yet I also very often cannot remember who the actual murderer is in a Christie story.. Maybe it is because she wrote so many mystery novels.. But I must say that now that I have read most of them at least twice, I do start to remember which is which. One that I had never read until recently, and which was really good, on a psychological and emotional level.

This was the best of those dramatizations I have heard, and a very interesting story. But yes, both The Hollow and Crooked House are excellent. In fact Crooked House is one of my favourites — she really could come up with unusual stuff and make it very believable. I always quite liked the ones that had young girls in them — she got the charcaterisation of them very well. Cat Among the Pigeons is another of the less well known ones that I love — about the boarding school?

This collection of stories, The Thirteen Problems, is available on audio with Joan Hickson reading, though one of my other commenters has just told me it might be called the Tuesday Club Murders in the US. But it just felt like a good one to revisit. All of the others were at least two episodes. That is the way to tell a good mystery; the interactions among the characters, the jealousies and suspicions, is half of the fun.