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7/12/2010 6:18:04 AM
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Yoshinori Todo
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What did everybody think of it?
*SPOILERS ALERT*
Personally, I think it's one heck of a suspense story that has the ability to get under your skin and stay there (albeit not really a mystery). Anybody who claims that most of Christie's characters are cardboard thin should read this, I say! This story gave me the shivers, for the following two reasons: (a) the feelings, the emotions expressed--or not--are so frighteningly real and powerful, and (b) the story is so incredibly well written. Yes, that's right, the story is so well written, it gave me the shivers--because you see everything that's happening, feel everything that's festering just underneath the surface, with such clarity and force. You can almost smell the characters and the grass on the downs, sense the sheer drop of the cliff a few feet away, they're that real.
As most of Christie's stories of this period it's written with great economy, yet it packs a whole lot of punch for all that. Oh, and this has to be one of her most pessimistic stories, if you think about it:
Character 1 is plain, unlucky in love, she succumbs to temptation of evil--though she tells herself over and over again that she won't, that she is a good person--and ends up in the loony bin.
Character 2 is beautiful with basically a good heart, yet she is also an admitted coward who married her husband only for the money--and ends up dead.
But wow! What a writer, what a story! What a ride!
Thanks for publishing this, AHMM! 
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Josh
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8/4/2010 3:20:45 PM
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AspE
Posts 76
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...I was wondering if it was PD ( Public Domain ) .
I suppose not , I seem to recall the credit on the first page of the story ( Which I haven't read yet . ) bearing a copyright credit , but...It appears that sometime in the mid-1920s is the cutoff point for a lot of well-known English-language things being P.D. , just recently someone put out a sequel to F. Scott Fitzgerald's " The Great Gatsby " ( Of course , Fitzgerald died rather young . ) , so...
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8/4/2010 9:54:01 PM
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Jeff Baker
Posts 132
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Not all writer's work (even very good writer's work) ages well. Christie's does. I think I've mentioned before that she also wrote a few ghost stories (another way of using her knack for suspense.)
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8/28/2010 1:28:35 PM
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Yoshinori Todo
Posts 232
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So nobody has anything to say about "The Edge"?
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Josh
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9/6/2010 1:10:15 AM
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Jeff Baker
Posts 132
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I didn't actually read it until tonight. It could easily have taken place today instead of having been written 80 plus years ago. Fresh and gripping.
And I loved that last line...
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