A murder is announced - by Agatha Christie

Not one of my favourites, but still a good one because of Agatha Christie's amazing writing. The most important thing to remember while reading this is " there are no typos!" because when I read it first time and I saw sometimes the wrong vowel I thought maybe it was just a typo, and at the end discovered it was not, it was instead very important! It was actually the key to everything!
 I thought it funny when Edmund talked of having written a play , a farse called " elephants do forget", because I knew she had written "elephants can remember", although while reading it I didn't know which book came first. I know now because I checked on wiki, and it says that 'elephants' came later.
The story starts in a lovely country-village-style, a look to many people reading the local paper where they can find all the news (and the gossip) about the people they know around there. One morning they read this :" A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m. Friends accept this, the only intimation" , quite strange for all, no doubt, they think it's a game they're all invited to, but then someone is actually murdered! 
In this book there is Miss Marple helping with the investigations, and the nice thing about it is that this time the officer doing the investigations is not dumb at all, is a good cop. Not brilliant like Miss Marple, but a good cop.

SPOILERS 
warning for those who don't yet know how it ends.
Why did I keep thinking it was a typo, or the spaced-out woman making a mistake.. I should have thought more about it, after all this is an Agatha Christie's book, paying attention is important! For once I noticed it, and didn't think it was important! Maybe if I had payed more attention and noticed that Dora "Bunny" Banner was the only one to use both "Letty" and "Lotty", I would have thought more of it. In her books you must focus particularly when people appear to be chatting about! It is true that while chatting with Miss Marple, Bunny keeps calling Letitia both Letty and Lotty, and saying how beautiful she had been, and how much she had suffered, brave and patient, so much that now she deserves some compensation, but also that she had always been an intelligent girl, maybe not very pretty but destined to success in life... I should have thought that Lotty could mean Charlotte!
Some pieces of the book looked a bit boring, but later on revealed themselves to be important...
It's touching how much Miss Hinchcliffe is suffering for the death of Miss Murgatroyd, her friend. So she did love her, in spite of all the insults, always telling her she hadn't got a brain. 
This book ends on a funny note, with two of the characters coming back from the honeymoon, and going to order the newspapers they want to receive, and they have to insist quite a lot that they do NOT want the local gazette, since it it unbelievable to the shopkeeper, and then he goes to repeat the order to his mother and she just goes Of course they want it, you misunderstood, how else could they know what's going on around here??? :lol: lovely country town :-)

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