The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

By Agatha Christie,

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A movie star A deadly cocktail A murder

When glamorous Marina Gregg came to live in St Mary Mead, tongues were sure to wag.

But, with a local gossip's sudden death, has one tongue wagged a bit too much?

As the police chase false leads, and two more victims meetā€¦

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1 author picked The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

What I loved about this book (which was also adapted into a film starring Elisabeth Taylor) was my first exposure to a female murderer. I liked the backstory of what motivated this woman to kill a seemingly innocent person at a party. Being a psychiatrist myself, my fascination with women who kill has inspired me to create a fictional serial killer in some of my own works.

Furthermore, the importance of a womanā€™s innate desire to become a mother when robbed of such happiness added to my interest in womenā€™s psychopathology on how horrific memories of the past leave anā€¦

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