When I first read the line that said a now dead gentleman Miss Marple had met in the south seas called her a Nemesis I thought that was rather a far fetched statement, because I had read the previous novel some time before and did not remember her as such.
But then it went on to say that her sense of detecting evil and her very strong sense of justice and right is what made her a nemesis of the wicked.
So I went on reading. The whole thing seemed so hopeless at the start because the now dead man , wealthy and shrewd and cunning had asked his lawyers to present her with the task of finding out something for him that he was unable to do while he lived.
The trouble was he left no instructions at the beginning, no information , nothing. If she accepted she was to be given the extraordinary sum of twenty thousand pounds.
If she failed in the proscribed amount of time she received nothing.
All she was told to do was join a bus tour all paid for and then stay at three ladies' home at some point on the route.
That was it.
So it was slow going at first, but when it began to make sense it was thrilling.
And she was formidable and at the very end she freaked me out.
Way to go Miss Jane Marple!
