Sittaford Mystery

And we also get a glimpse of Miss Lemon’s hitherto unsuspected feminine instincts in the closing lines. On вЂthe fatal evening’ Poirot is at the club but leaves early and Christie adopts the idea of Japp recounting the details to him (вЂor does he hear?’). None of the early part of this story, Poirot’s meeting with the Countess in the London Underground and his subsequent visit to her nightclub, features in the Notebooks. Exhibit G: Murder Is Easy: Seeds of Inspiration вЂI’m never at a loss for a plot’ Cards on the Table, Chapter 4 SOLUTIONS REVEALED вЂThe Case of the Perfect Maid’ • The Sittaford Mystery These short jottings are perfect examples of Christie’s imaginative cultivation of even the smallest seed of an idea into a fully formed bloom—and often, with her customary good sense, she used that idea more than once. These ideas often appear in a list of similar ideas but sometimes on a page in the middle of notes for another title, as inspiration struck. And all of them appear separately from the plotting of the story in which they ultimately appeared ...»