Waiting for the Police, by J. Jefferson, is a short story set in a boarding-house where nothing ever happens to make life more exciting for the people who live there. Until one day, one of the guests was found dead in his room. What happened? Who killed him? Shocked, the guests started to discuss their alibies. All of them mentioned what they were doing. They were considering who could have killed the man when a knock on the front door made them all jump out of their chairs. They heard footsteps approaching and saw someone entering the room: the dead man.
I chose this story for three reasons. First, because I really like mistery stories and to guess who the guilty person is. Second, because I think it is really well written, full of well-balanced dialogues. And finally, because it keeps the mistery of who the culprit is until the very end. It is at the end of the story when we find out what really happened.
Taken form a book called 20th Century English Short Stories.
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1 year ago
I read this story and I agree with you, not only it is well written and keeps the reader´s attention creating suspension all the time, but also it shows us how witty old people are and how well they manage to entertain themselves and waist their boring time im the boarding house.
ReplyDeleteBryana.
I read it too, it is great, i really enjoyed the way in wich it develops and keeps the mistery until its end.
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