Teaser Tuesday (109)

***In case you're here looking for my "She Said What" blogfest post, that will be up tomorrow. Hope you'll swing by then!***


Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week, my teaser is from A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie. I've been on a bit of an Agatha Christie spree lately, working through her books featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. They're a lot of fun to read, though I have to kind of stop myself from reading too many of them otherwise everything blurs together and they all start coming across as the same.

(This isn't actually the cover of the book I have. The one I'm reading is a library copy that has all-black binding and gold lettering, with no other decoration. This was the most interesting cover I could find instead.)

The mild eyes, the long obstinate mouth, the slightly upturned nose. Poor Dora, so maddening, so muddle-headed, so devoted and such a problem. A dear fussy old idiot and yet, in a queer way, with an instinctive sense of values.

-p. 15

(Since this is mystery, I was afraid to look at anything beyond the point I'd read up to. Hence the lower page number.)

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Have you ever read any books by Agatha Christie? Got any favorites? (Mine would be The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, at least so far.)

What are you reading now? Do you have a teaser to share?


-----The Golden Eagle