Classic Ink Chronicles

I pray that you are doing well 🙏. Things look grey in India, people are dying due to COVID and lack of oxygen everywhere. I truly feel grateful to be born in a family, wherein I have a home, family, food and moreover health in this crucial time. Please take all the precautions and have faith in God. Remember this too shall pass😔. My condolences to all who have died in this fight🌹.        I was preoccupied with work, this month almost completely and hence no post. Will try to be consistent.       I am somewhat familiar with Agatha Christie's body of work,  that she wrote detective, murder , mystery stories. And also watched an old movie adaptation of the novel "and then there were none". So, happen to pick this one. The story begins, with a famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot traveling from Syria to Stamboul by the sleeping car(train) Taurus Express 🚂, He was summoned here by an officer on a case, having closed it successfully, ...

This is the story of a young girl named Lucy who has come to Florence along with her cousin Bartlett, for a visit. She is a native of London and her neighbourhood there, to put it bluntly is too poised and proper for her. People just didn't speak their mind because they didn't want to come cross and women hardly knew what having a mind of their own really is. She felt like, she wanted to experience a totally different world and she knew she would find it in Italy. They lived in a pension named Bertolini, and there they meet quite a few interesting characters. A father and son duo named Emerson's, wherein the father although polite, had no filter whatsoever when he spoke and which was often mistaken for a rude behaviour by others. His son George, looked as if he lost something in life. A Mr. Beebe, a clergyman who was an acquaintance of Lucy, who happens to like knowing what the young want. Mr Eager, who poured himself into poetry, history everything his intellec...