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Murder is Easy

by Agatha Christie
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The town of Wychwood-under-Ashe is a curious place. It has a reputation for sorcery and witchcraft, and Luke Fitzwilliam, an older man returning to England after an extended period living abroad, arrives there to gather as much information as he can on local folklore and superstition-or so the townspeople think. In reality, Luke Fitzwilliam is Agatha Christie's protagonist, and therefore a man on the trail of a murderer. In this case it is a murderer carefully concealing his motions beneath the guise of freak accidents, a rash of which have recently plagued Wychwood. As with many of Christie's one-time heroes, Fitzwilliam is an intelligent amateur, drawn into the mystery by circumstance, curiosity, and the leisure time to make investigating other people's problems the focus of his daily life. What Christie does so beautifully in Murder is Easy is present Fitzwilliam and the reader watching over his shoulder with a provincial, insular community with its intricate web of business relationships, courtships, antagonisms, rivalries, attractions, and coincidences. As Fitzwilliam finds out, detailing the character of the web in all its detail is often the townspeople's favorite pastime, and he listens keenly with a detective's ear to the accounts of jealousy, suspicion, desire, mistrust, and disdain that color many of those strands. The result, at least at first, is what it should be: a baffling array of suspects, motives, clues, and possible avenues of inquiry that leave Fitzwilliam, the outsider looking in, perplexed. In addition to the natural enigma of the daily lives of unfamiliar people, the town of Wychwood has an unusual reputation as a place of witchcraft and sorcery. At first the town's reputed history simply provides Fitzwilliam with an excuse for visiting, and a motive for asking questions. But as the novel progresses, it becomes clear that Wychwood's witchery is not an historical oddity but a living reality. And maybe, Fitzwilliam, speculates, these occult holdovers have something to do with the untimely deaths he has come to investigate. First published in 1939, Murder is Easy is a classic from Christie's golden period, a roughly fifteen year span that saw the artist hitting her stride with the creation of Miss Marple, the development of Hercule Poirot, and the publication of her most classic mysteries.
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Publisher: RosettaBooks

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  • Release date: June 5, 2002

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  • ISBN: 0795309929
  • Release date: June 5, 2002

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  • ISBN: 0795309929
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  • Release date: June 5, 2002

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The town of Wychwood-under-Ashe is a curious place. It has a reputation for sorcery and witchcraft, and Luke Fitzwilliam, an older man returning to England after an extended period living abroad, arrives there to gather as much information as he can on local folklore and superstition-or so the townspeople think. In reality, Luke Fitzwilliam is Agatha Christie's protagonist, and therefore a man on the trail of a murderer. In this case it is a murderer carefully concealing his motions beneath the guise of freak accidents, a rash of which have recently plagued Wychwood. As with many of Christie's one-time heroes, Fitzwilliam is an intelligent amateur, drawn into the mystery by circumstance, curiosity, and the leisure time to make investigating other people's problems the focus of his daily life. What Christie does so beautifully in Murder is Easy is present Fitzwilliam and the reader watching over his shoulder with a provincial, insular community with its intricate web of business relationships, courtships, antagonisms, rivalries, attractions, and coincidences. As Fitzwilliam finds out, detailing the character of the web in all its detail is often the townspeople's favorite pastime, and he listens keenly with a detective's ear to the accounts of jealousy, suspicion, desire, mistrust, and disdain that color many of those strands. The result, at least at first, is what it should be: a baffling array of suspects, motives, clues, and possible avenues of inquiry that leave Fitzwilliam, the outsider looking in, perplexed. In addition to the natural enigma of the daily lives of unfamiliar people, the town of Wychwood has an unusual reputation as a place of witchcraft and sorcery. At first the town's reputed history simply provides Fitzwilliam with an excuse for visiting, and a motive for asking questions. But as the novel progresses, it becomes clear that Wychwood's witchery is not an historical oddity but a living reality. And maybe, Fitzwilliam, speculates, these occult holdovers have something to do with the untimely deaths he has come to investigate. First published in 1939, Murder is Easy is a classic from Christie's golden period, a roughly fifteen year span that saw the artist hitting her stride with the creation of Miss Marple, the development of Hercule Poirot, and the publication of her most classic mysteries.
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Fiction Mystery Thriller