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They Do It With Mirrors

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They Do It With Mirrors	comment	They Do It With Mirrors is a 1952 mystery novel by Agatha Christie.Miss Jane Marple meets up with her old school friend, Ruth Van Rydock. Ruth tells Jane that she is worried about her sister Carrie Louise, Miss Marple's other school friend. Ruth can't say what's wrong, but she thinks something is wrong, so she wants her inquisitive friend Jane to check it out.Based on nothing more than that, Miss Marple is off. She goes to visit Carrie Louise, who is Happily Married to her third husband, Lewis Serrocold. Lewis runs a reformatory for teenaged delinquents, a progressive institution seeking to give young criminal offenders the skills to be productive members of society. Jane meets her old friend Carrie Louise, Lewis, and the rest of their complicated household: Gina, Carrie Louise's granddaughter. Gina is married to an American, Walter Hudd, but their marriage is in trouble. Alex and Stephen Restarick, Carrie Louise's stepsons from her second marriage. Both of them have eyes for beautiful Gina. Mildred, Carrie Louise's daughter and Gina's aunt. Resents her mother and her family in general for preferring Mildred's sister and Gina's mom, Pippa, now long dead. Juliet Bellever and Edgar Lawson. Juliet is Carrie Louise's longtime secretary and companion. Edgar is one of the young delinquents, a schizophrenic who sometimes thinks he's the son of either Winston Churchill or Field Marshal Montgomery. Despite this handicap Lewis Serrocold is rehabilitating him, and Edgar is working as his assistant. Christian Gulbrandsen: Mildred's half-brother and Carrie Louise's stepson from her long-ago first marriage (Carrie Louise was a Trophy Wife and she and Christian are the same age).Christian, who is a trustee of the reformatory, arrives unexpectedly, and in a state of concern. Soon he is shot and killed! Will Miss Marple discover the murderer?note Of course she will.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A discussion about how theater is artifice leads to the topic of magicians and how both deceive the audience. Miss Marple says "They do it with mirrors is, I believe, the slang phrase." The talk of actors and magicians deceiving the audience leads to Miss Marple's "Eureka!" Moment.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_232e4ee0	type	Holding Both Sides of the Conversation
They Do It With Mirrors / int_232e4ee0	comment	Holding Both Sides of the Conversation: Edgar and Lewis do this to help Lewis establish an alibi. They go into his office, and then Edgar fakes both sides of an argument, loud enough for those outside to hear, while Lewis slips out a back way and commits the crime.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_460afe01	type	Two Dun It
They Do It With Mirrors / int_460afe01	comment	Two Dun It: Edgar and Lewis collaborated on the murder, with Edgar Holding Both Sides of the Conversation while Lewis stole off to do the deed.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
They Do It With Mirrors / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: In the big confrontation where an insane, gun-wielding Edgar is threatening Lewis, Edgar lets out "a laugh that Miss Marple had to admit definitely sounded insane."
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_59af9477	type	Delinquents
They Do It With Mirrors / int_59af9477	comment	Delinquents: Lewis Serrocold runs a reformatory full of delinquents. Lewis is a crusader aiming to put delinquents back on the straight and narrow.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
They Do It With Mirrors / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: A literary variant. When Christian was killed he left behind a letter on a typewriter, that ends with "I have reason to believe that that sweet lady is being poisoned. I first suspected this when—". This is later subverted when it's revealed that the murderer added the bit about poisoning to the end of the letter as part of his scheme.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
They Do It With Mirrors / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Mildred, the biological daughter of Miss Marple's friend Carrie Louise, is the unfavorite as compared to Carrie Louise's adopted daughter Pippa, her stepsons Alex and Stephan, and later Pippa's daughter Gina. Poor girl just can't catch a break. The end of the story, when Carrie Louise turns to Mildred for support and comfort and an earlier conversation between the former and Miss Marple implies that much of this "unfavoritism" was Mildred's perception.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_83a55c8e	type	Napoleon Delusion
They Do It With Mirrors / int_83a55c8e	comment	Napoleon Delusion: Edgar Lawson introduces himself to Miss Marple as the son of Winston Churchill and later claims he's the son of Bernard Montgomery. Later subverted when it's revealed that he's faking it for attention, and then it turns out he's faking being insane at all.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_a4a43fd	type	Saw a Woman in Half
They Do It With Mirrors / int_a4a43fd	comment	Saw a Woman in Half: Features a lot of discussion of this trick and how it is done. Although no one actually performs the trick during the novel, Miss Marple realizes that the killer's method of murder used a very similar trick.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
They Do It With Mirrors / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Edgar Lawson is not really "Edgar Lawson" and he doesn't have schizophrenia. Lewis brought him to the reformatory as part of the murder scheme.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
They Do It With Mirrors / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: Alex Restarick and Ernie the delinquent are both killed near the end of the story. Alex apparently started to figure out how the murder was done, and Ernie pretended that he saw something incriminating. They're both killed when a counterweight is dropped on them at the theater.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
They Do It With Mirrors / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Edgar is said to be having "a state of humility approaching that of Uriah Heep's." This is a bit of foreshadowing as Uriah Heep's humility was fake and so is Edgar's.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
They Do It With Mirrors / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The whole storyline about Carrie Louise being poisoned is misdirection by Lewis, seeking to lure the police away from the true motive. He surreptiously adds a few lines to Christian's letter, invents a story about Christian believing Carrie Louise was being poisoned, and even sends his wife some poisoned chocolates.
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They Do It With Mirrors / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
They Do It With Mirrors / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Lampshaded by Miss Bellever, who says "You don't expect murder and attempted murder in the same house on the same night." Subverted when Miss Marple figures out that it wasn't a coincidence at all, but rather Edgar and Lewis's plot.
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They Do It With Mirrors	hasFeature	Adoption-Induced Pregnancy / int_fd32a983
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