139, WG82, F65, E132 / NG57, M69, MF5, B2, D6, Frz1, C1, NA1

Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery

Als ich die Miss-Marple-Bücher zum ersten Mal las - lang, lang ist's her - las ich 'Nemesis' vor diesem Buch, und obwohl beide Bücher unabhängig voneinander gelesen werden können, wollte ich sie diesmal doch in der richtigen Reihenfolge wiederlesen. Eigentlich ging es mir hauptsächlich um Nemesis, aber dieser Band hat auch alles was einen richtig guten Miss-Marple-Krimi ausmacht.
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Fortunately at Miss Marple's age, there was always some ailment that could be discussed with slight exxagerations on the patient's part. Miss Marple hesitated between 'her shoulder' and 'her knee', but finally decided upon the knee. Miss Marple's knee, as she would have put it to herself, was always with her.
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'Oh no,' she said, 'I think it's quite natural. Life is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting.'
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(Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery, 1964)