# ok agatha you trolled me good that time (the mirror crack'd)

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**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-agatha-you-trolled-me-good-that-time-the-mirror-crackd/831172 "2019-03-15T06:44:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-agatha-you-trolled-me-good-that-time-the-mirror-crackd/831172/21 "2019-03-17T16:34:43Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> I was wrong. The clue appears on page 19, not page 1. So sorry. I’m looking at the kindle edition preview on the amazon website, as I don’t own the book any more. But on that page…
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> Heather Badcock and Miss Marple are talking about Marina Gregg staying at Gossington Hall and making a movie there. Heather is speaking and she says (my bold, but italics are in the original), Of course, Heather had German measles, and she was the reason Marina lost her baby. Marina realizes this when she meets Heather at the fête, and Heather reminds her of when they first met. That’s when Marina decides to kill her. I haven’t read the book in years, but I’ve seen the Joan Hickson Masterpiece version a few times. It’s pretty good.

The 1980 theatrical release movie of this story offered us my favorite Miss Marple so far, Angela Lansbury.

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-agatha-you-trolled-me-good-that-time-the-mirror-crackd/831172/22 "2019-03-17T17:01:20Z")

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isnt that why a few years later she got the role on murder she wrote ? shes just be playing the american version of marple/christie … at least in the beginning ?

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-agatha-you-trolled-me-good-that-time-the-mirror-crackd/831172/23 "2019-03-17T17:23:52Z")

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> [@SpoilerVirgin](#):
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> One thing not yet mentioned in this thread is that Christie got the idea for the solution to _The Mirror Crack’d_ from a famous real life incident.

Christie’s other real-life borrowings include Daisy Armstrong in _Murder on the Orient Express_, who is obviously based on the [Lindbergh baby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping), and Eva Kane in _Mrs. McGinty’s Dead_ is based on [Ethel le Neve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Le_Neve).

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