Reading Agatha Christie To Pass The Time...
Well, you may have heard I've been feeling ill the last few days.
I hate being sick (who doesn't, right?) But there's something I hate worse than the feeling of being sick - it's the feeling of just sitting around passing the time. You'd think, since I do computer work for a living, I could still sit at my home and work, but I don't do too much of that - when I'm sick I can't seem to concentrate on stuff well enough to actually get anything done.
So, looking for something to pass the time, I found some old Agatha Christie Mystery Novels on my bookshelves...and read seven of them in the last couple days.
Yep. Murder At The Vicarage, Sad Cypress, Dead Man's Folly, Toward Zero, N Or M, Murder With Mirrors, and Ten Little Indians (also known as "And Then There Were None")
Ten Little Indians is one of Christie's better known mysteries, which was made into both a play and a movie. In this one, Ten people are on "Indian Island", and one by one they all get killed until there was no one left. And the murders all took place according to the old nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians"
Ten Little Indians went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine Little Indian Boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight Little Indian Boys traveling in Devon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven Little Indian boys chopping up sticks;
One chopped himself in halves, and then there were six.
Six Little Indian boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five Little Indian boys going in for law;
One got in chancery and then there were four.
Four Little Indian boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three Little Indian boys walking to the zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two Little Indian boys playing sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone;
He went and hanged himself …and then there were none.
When I was a kid we had a slew of Agatha Christie around - I think between me, my brothers, and my father, we had every one of her books still in print and some that weren't. Then, when we all grew up, we each had our own library of Agatha Christie novels.
Only...I think I may have walked off with one of dad's books, because between each stanza of the Indians poem, in my father's handwriting, is a line stating who the victim was, and how he was killed.
So, dad, if you're missing a mystery novel...
I've got it.
Posted On May 20, 2005 at 4:39 AM
On May 20, 2005 Laura wrote: Wow. Sounds like a very, um, enlightening story. ;-) Hope you feel better soon!
Doug Replied: well, ya know, it's probably not as enlightening as watching Revenge of the Sith at midnight on opening night, but it'll do.
On May 20, 2005 Mr. Physics wrote: "Murder at the Vickerage" and "Murder is Announced" were on channel 10 recently, I have them on tape if I haven't erased them.
Doug Replied: Ooh, I'll have to borrow those from you sometime (if you haven't erased them) I only vaguely remember "Murder Is Announced"
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