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Ordeal By Innocence - Agatha Christie

                          Image Courtesy : Film Affinity Mrs Argyle was brutally murdered one night and police began to question all the inmates of Mr Argyle house. All the circumstances point to Mr Jacko Argyle, the youngest son of Argyle’s, as the potential murderer. The police filed a case against Mr Jacko who claims that he had a alibi of a person who provided a lift to him in a car. The investigative team tried searching for the person whose resemblance matches the description that Mr. Jacko provided. Since, they could not find any one with such characteristics, the court decides that he is making up the entire alibi and imprisons him for about 10 years. Jacko dies in prison due to pneumonia. 2 Years later, Arthur Calgary visits Mr Jacko’s house and informs them that he was an alibi that Jacko was searching upon. Calgary informs them that he was suffering from concussion and couldn’t recollect his lost memor...

Strangers on a train - Patricia Highsmith

                                                  Image courtesy : Amazon Strangers on a Train is a psychological thriller about 2 men who accidentally meet each other in a train and how their lives change after that meeting. Guy Haines, an architect, is on a train to meet his unfaithful wife, Miriam, to discuss about his impending divorce with her so that he can marry Anne. He meets Bruno in the train who is completely drunk. Bruno suggests that he would kill Guy’s wife and Guy should kill his father in turn. Guy laughed off his suggestion and proceeds with his life. However, Bruno takes this seriously and kills Guy’s wife and he forces Bruno to honor his commitments of killing his father. Did Guy kill Bruno’s father and what happens after forms the crux of the story. The narrative is dark and the writing ensures that the readers are transpor...

A dog eat dog-food world by Suresh Chandrasekaran

                                                  Image courtesy : Amazon Spike Fortune is a millionaire whose only worry in life is whether he will die before spending all his money. As a result, he calls up his doctor at odd hours complaining that he is about to die. Tired of Spike's tantrums, his doctor advises him to start business to spend all his money. Spike agrees to the doctors advise and asks Jerry Fortune to find a business for him. Jerry suggests Spike to start a business that will sell exclusive foods to dog. Spike starts a business and what happens afterwards is a hilarious take on marketing and humans around us. The entire book is a satire on contemporary marketing techniques and pseudo history of marketing management. This book might have been a product if PG Wodehouse had chosen to write about marketing. Most of the line...