Author : Agatha Christie
This Bool : 322 pages. I read 126 pages.
I understood 65%.
1. Cassetti kidnapped three-years-old American heiress Daisy Armstrong. Though the Armstrong family paid a large ransom for Daisy's release, Cassetti murdered the little girl regardless and fled the country with the money. Daisy's mother, Sonia Armstrong, was pregnant when she heard of Daisy's death. The shock sent her into premature labor, and both she and the child died. Her husband, Colonel Armstrong, shot himself out of grief. Mrs. Armstrong's maid, Susanne, was suspected by the police, despite her protests. She threw herself out of a window of the armstrong house and died after which she was proved innocent.
2. If some one in my family is killed, I will kill someone who killed my family.
3.
kidnap(v): to take sb away illegally and keep them as aprisoner, especially in order to get money or sth else for returning them
premature(adj): happening before the normal or expected time
ransom(n): money that is paid to sb so that they will set free a person who is being kept as a prisoner by them.
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