What I’m Reading

So I recently finished reading The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie, which is the first Christie book I’ve read. I read it for a class and really enjoyed it. I never read a Christie book because I thought that it would be boring and drawn out, but it is actually a quick, easy read. My only disappointment was the location of the crime. I read the title and thought that it would be amusing if the body was found in a public library, given my job. The body is found in an ex-Colonel’s private library.
When Dolly Bantry told her husband that a body was found in the library, he told her she was dreaming and reading too many mysteries. After Colonel Arthur Bantry found out that she’d been telling the truth, he called the police, while Dolly called her friend, Miss Jane Marple. They quickly learn that the body is of professional dancer, Ruby Keene, who works at the Majestic Hotel. But why was her body in the Bantry’s library? Although Mr. Bantry had been to the Majestic Hotel, he did not recognize the strangled girl. An investigation ensues, taking the police and Miss Marple to the Majestic Hotel, where they meet more than one person with a motive to kill the dancer.

Conway Jefferson, an elderly wheelchair bound, rich man had taken an interest in Ruby and was the person who the disappearance. Adelaide Jefferson, Conway’s widowed daughter-in-law, believed that Ruby was a gold digger and Marc Gaskell, Conway’s widowed son-in-law, admitted to being happy the dancer was murdered. Josie, Ruby’s cousin, seemed more angry than sorrowful when she identified her relative’s body. When a second body is found in a burned out car, Miss Marple is sure that the murders are connected. And if the murderer has killed twice, what would stop him/her from killing again?

The Body in the Library is an interesting read because the story never stops moving. There’s always something going on to hold the reader’s attention just a little longer. The crimes are not graphic in detail but still help to move the plot along. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in murder mysteries.