Christie, A (1927). The shadow on the glass.

 After reading all stories, listening to the audios, I hardly could understand stories, then rereading twice the one I prefered, writting on advance every single aspect of the narration, I chose this sentence as the main one for the story: "If I were you, I should go to her now", concluded Mr.Quin character, to a muttered Captain Porter, from The shadow of the glass's story (Christie, 1927, p.2). I guess you may think it is weard, for simpleness of the sentence, but this could be the first time in history of short stories, this sentence would appear published around the word. For nowdays, it could be seen as a cliche one, on almost every tv serie, or on romantic movies. Then, I notice this story is profoundly modern, first part of the story, I relate to "Murder she wrotes' tv serie", a 1988's released English production, while listening the way dialogues were pronounced. Then, I notice about the construction of the story this fluid world, that make you think of tv shows as Allie McBeal, I would've choose a visual format like that to put on scene this story. As reader, you feel situations are already in movement whenever the story starts, then, you got to meet characters from what they say, and act, as story has being constructed over the dialogues, all we get to know of what is happening comes from the relationships between characters. It mixes their particular point of view, like subjectives, from the landscape, same as whatever idea that crosses through there mind, as well as, their feelings, and behaviors. Text appeals a movie script, but actually is not organized as that, writer uses parallel structures, same as a kind of transition sentences that I could imagine as fade outs and fade ins, for instance, at the end of one of the paragraphs, the character made a reflexion of a dead body, then, you as a reader have to wait to figure out the thinking, then, author decides to break the silence bringing up an inesperate Police officer's dialogue, as saying, Police is already here, it might pass have an hour, forty five minutes from one situation to the other, and for reader it happens in a wicked of eye. That's probably, one of the main resource use by television or cinema, the way scriptwriter selects main actions to delivering story to audiences, it is not a currently time, they skip situations that would occur at a normal day, but that are not important to the core of the story they are trying to narrate. Other characteristic of these stories is that author must know, must figure out the whole ensemble before writing in order that all the pieces match while trying to resolve a murder. So I had to read this story twice, even three times because I was losing details of the drama. This story hides information, the same that opens picks of what characters are thinking or feeling as in a real life situation, so here we have a character, who maybe is not the one any suspect as being the main one, who is secretly in love toward a woman they met in Egypt on winter, and that the whole group of friends re-encounter during a party at a country house. The ones in the trip occult whatever issue that happens during that journey, one of the characters has just got married to a young lady, whenever every one was expecting to has got married to the woman this shy character likes. So, everyone is worried about a rude jelousy situation caused by hidden relationships between them, so story is like a big gossip where everebody manifest their more kind of daredevil thinkings, and suspicions, in parallel with a surrealistic story about a ghost in the house, which appears on a window everytime any gets jelows, and that might suspect about the motives of a murder that has occured, two people, the young bride, and next younger guy in the place, appeared shooted into a garden, after the other party's guest had listened two shots from a firegun. Behavior of characters is funny because they come and go into the situations without any order, their movements don't have any common sense, they love like flyes, it's a party. So, near the end of the story, and after the Police coming, an inspector, enters on scene a kind of a private investigator, writer broughts from the sleeve of her jacket, to solve the crime from a brief of the situation. I discovered, looking for the year of the publishing, this "Sherlock Holmes" alike character is the main character of a serie of stories, writer wrote for a magazine in 1927. In five minutes, he discovers the criminal was the jelaous broom, that he shooted from the ghost's window, driven by the tale they have being telling all two days of the party time. We knew from the character that he was a professional hunter, so he shoot a first shot that crosses the two victims, from the woman's back, to the man's breast, just one shot, then, he shooted a second bullet just to prove his expertise at shooting, so he destroys the woman's earing. He lasted less that two minutes to cross the place and appears at a different house's room. After all, investigator conclude that the lady they met at Egipt on winter, should get acknowledge of this guy's jeloussy, so that her feelling toward our shy character might be genuine, so he urges the guy to hurry up for the woman. It's so funny because the whole situation is unexpected, that you would enjoy every single situation at the story. I do hardly recommend to read this Agatha Christie's piece of cake, I laughed too much.

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