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Sep 26, 2005GingerKaren rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A young married woman, Gwenda, lands in England to look for a house for her and her husband to live in. He is English and she is from New Zealand, and has never been to England before. After several days of searching, she finds a place that feels like home near Dillmouth and by the sea. As she starts renovations, she is surprised to have certain feelings about how things should be changed: the path to the garden should have steps going down in a particular spot, there should be a doorway through two rooms, and the wall paper she has picked out for an upstairs bedroom should have certain flowers on it. The steps to the garden are easy to remedy, there were steps there before that are now covered by dirt and flowers. Likewise for the door way, it was just walled up! It isn''t until she pries open a closet in the upstairs room and sees that there used to be the exact pattern of wallpaper used in that room years before, that Gwenda starts to feel very uneasy. And then what of the vision she has of a murder in the front hall? Could this be true to life as well? Soon the arrival of her husband sends the both of them off on a chase helped by their new friend Miss Marple that may end in more murder! This is one of the best that Agatha Christie has to offer, and one of my all-time favorites!