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They Do It with Mirrors
They Do It with Mirrors is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 under the title of Murder with Mirrors and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 17 November that year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6). The book features her detective Miss Marple.
One review at the time of publication praised the essence of the
that was not based on any of Christie's stories.
It does, however, employ elements of the Miss Marple story "They Do It With Mirrors". Specifically, the "Battledore" is a training ship for teenage boys with criminal tendencies, who are supposedly being set on the straight and narrow path – when, in fact, one of the members of the crew is training them for careers in housebreaking. Likewise, in "They Do It WIth Mirrors", Lewis Serrocold is running his wife's mansion