Caribbean Mystery

Really it is young man kills Greg Despite the presence of two couples with almost identical names in the novel, none of the various permutations and combinations considered here found their way into A Caribbean Mystery. And in Notebook 35 she lists what were to become three novels, although the alphabetical sequence is odd. Perhaps this is the order in which she intended to write them, although they were actually published in the order below: 1962 Notes for 3 books Y. The Clocks (?) Z. Carribean [sic] Mystery X. Gypsy’s Acre Some of the ideas Christie jotted down in the various Notebooks—the frog-faced Major, someone telling longwinded stories about murder, the administration of hallucinogenic drugs and a husband who вЂsaves’ his wife a few times only to вЂfail’ to save her at some later stage—do appear in the novel. She also reminds herself a few times about вЂThe Cretan Bull’ from The Labours of Hercules and its use of hallucinogenic drugs: Look up datura poisoning as administered by Indian wives to husbands—and re-read Cretan Bull Book about Cretan Bull idea—insanity induced by doses of Belladonna Play or Book—depending on root idea of Murder Made [sic] Easy or Cretan Bull—everything closing round one person gradually—engineered by someone else A man’s wife hangs herself—he cuts her down in time ...»