Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul Gray, who wrote the analysis of Southern fiction in Books, has admired William Faulkner "since I was young enough to have a hero." He remembers, from the days when he was an undergraduate at Ole Miss, watching the man he calls "the genius of the South" walking through Oxford, undisturbed by students or townspeople...
...everyone may approve of Smith's schemes to snap the Square out of its doldrums, but his hit-or-miss approach more often than not reaps results...
...early books, like The Murder at the Vicarage, Miss Marple was a snoop as well as a sleuth, "the worst old cat in the village." Her famous garden was a smokescreen, and her fondness for observing birds through powerful glasses could be turned to other purposes. As time passed, Dr. Haydock had to tell Miss Marple gently that gardening was making her rheumatism worse. She became quieter and less flighty. But her methods of detection were always the same. Where Poirot used his "little gray cells," Jane Marple extrapolated from her knowledge of St. Mary Mead. A swindler? She remembers...
...villain in Sleeping Murder is not nearly so enterprising. About all Miss Marple has to do is to keep her dogged young friends from pursuing their own dim-witted plans. What is comforting about the book is Miss Marple's presence and the fact that the author could not bring herself to do her character...
...Miss Marple once told her friend Elspeth McGillicuddy during a horticultural discussion, "Peonies are unaccountable. Either they do- or they don't do. But if they do establish themselves, they are with you for life." The old spinster apparently became like the peonies in her garden...