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- @H@3WHO DUNNIT ?
- @A@2By Uncle Jack
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- 1I watched Paul Merton's London Paladium story on TV. It was okay, but the
- 1best bit was when he finished off his series, by doing his own stage act at
- 1the London Paladium. In a particular sketch he played a policeman
- 1investigating a murder. Near the end of the act the lights went out and Paul
- 1Merton said that when the lights go back on, the only person on the stage
- 1must be the murder. When the lights did go on Paul was the only person on
- 1stage, so he concluded he must have been the murderer. He said
- 1"Oh it must have been me, the policeman. Well the same thing happens in `The
- 1Mousetrap' anyway, so I just saved you 15 quid." The audience groaned and I
- 1nearly killed my self laughing (what a sense of humour I must have !).
- 1
- 1Anyway, by chance about a week later I saw Biteback (I think). Some old man
- 1had written in saying it was a disgrace that Paul Merton had revealed the
- 1ending to The Mousetrap. As he was just about to take his wife to see The
- 1Mousetrap and had kept the solution secret from her for 20 years, he was mosr
- 1upset. I killed myself laughing even more, especialy when Paul Merton said
- 1that the man was a cheapskate and should have taken his wife sooner, after
- 1all it's been running 40+ years.
- 1
- 1Paul Merton has inspired me to do the same and reveal to you the murders in 5
- 1Agatha Christie books. I think it's fair to say they are long overdue.
- 1
- 1If you see your Gran, or someone reading them say something like:
- 1"Good book that, Gran. Who would have thought the shopkeeper murdered his own
- 1daughter."
- 1Funny, and even more so if they are near the end of the book anyway.
- 1
- {1@7A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY
- {7@1
- 1Tim Kendal
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- {1@7HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS
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- 1Superintendant Sugden
- 1
- 1
- {1@7THE CLOCKS
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- 1Miss Martindale (I think)
- 1
- 1
- {1@7DEATH ON THE NILE
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- 1Simon Doyle
- 1
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- {1@7MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
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- 1They all did it (apart from Poirot)
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- 1If you have to read these books, for school or something then I have kindly
- 1saved you the trouble. I'm a generous person.
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