The solicitor Mr. Petherick’s story for the Tuesday Night Club feels like the slightest, and it’s also the most obvious in its solution. The structure is meant to take your attention away from the clue, what with the all the discussion over the irrelevant distinction between suspects with a motive but no opportunity and those with an opportunity and no motive. It’s easy to see we’re being played by this, and the reveal that the murderer was making use of a child’s magic trick is a fitting note to end on.
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Alex Good 
Is this the sequel to Ballistics Ecks Vs Server? Or Marple: Motive x Opportunity?
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Alternative timelines in the Marpleverse.
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I’d say this is Marple Minus 1…
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St. Mary Mead ain’t the 87th Precinct . . .
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That’s because Marple is a hack. If Godzilla promised to eat her, I’d give him an extra big bottle of bbq sauce to do so.
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Haven’t read any Marples, don’t think I ever will based on these reviews.
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I haven’t gotten to any good ones. But to be honest, they aren’t holding up as well as I thought they would.
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Some books don’t, I bought a few from a series I liked back in the day, but couldn’t even get through the first.
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Always sad when that happens.
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