Miss Marple

in that they've gone from creating about the most tangible product imaginable, steel, to about the least, a reality show that kind of didn't exist and was certainly very unlikely to be picked up by Netflix.

So, yeah, so his great-grandfather had built a utopian worker community for his steel workers to live in, which was based off of an English village, like something out of Miss Marple.

So these were two very eccentric construction projects 100 years apart.

Chris Mark's great-grandfather had basically built an Agatha Christie village in the middle of industrial East Chicago.

If people want to look online, look up an aerial shot of Marktown.

It's extraordinary.

It's like Miss Marple had been scrunched up and thrown into the middle of Wally, like this dystopian industrial hell.

Apparently all the children of Marktown, every so often it would rain mysterious silver particles from the nearby factories.

There's a murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel.

It's a continuation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, which Lucy Foley is taking up the mantle of Miss Marple and writing this new book.

And it just came out recently.

And yeah, that's pretty much all I can summarize for this book.

It was cute and cozy.

And while it wasn't the most surprising, I enjoyed it.

Now, I have not read any Miss Marple books, so I don't know how true it holds to the character or whatever, but.

I was along for the ride, and I liked the audiobook a lot.

And I love growing up.

I think the problem was I also... believed that so there is this like fun she's making about gossip because it's funny and like it's it's funny that the character this the other detective she has is Miss Marple and she is like the gossip in a sense I do want to read yeah she like she's really fun and funny and um Not as, like, boisterous as Caroline in the same way, because she is, she's still got that, like, mystery because she's, like, not telling you all her answers as you go.

And in the same way, Hercule Poirot, it's, like, almost, I don't think it's ever first person, but sometimes they're much closer to him.

Like, when it's through Hastings' perspective or, like, somebody else's perspective, it feels much closer than James did.

went right over my head.

It makes me want to read it again.

But I also want to read Miss Marple.

Mousetrap kind of caught my eye.

Yeah.

Rolled into one with our own pretend copyright infringement Miss Marple character.

Yes, that's right.

And it was in this space as well, wasn't it? In Station Hall in the previous iteration of Station

Oh, I don't know this one.

It does sound good.

Just like, I suppose, Miss Marple and Poirot.

The detectives have to have a thing.

But in the case of the body in the library, it is all about her descriptive power.

And that is also, I think, a reason that sleeping murder, even though it's not one of my favorite Christie novels or even Miss Marple novels, it does have a power to it.

It has a hold over me as a reader.

And I really remembered that one when I was rereading it for the podcast.