Resumen En Inglés De Crimen Story Collection

Story 1: Three is a Lucky Number by
Margery Allingham
Ronald Torbay has met and married Edyth, a 43-year-old
woman, alone in the world, with a lot of money. He plans
to murder her and make itlook like an accident, as he has
done with two previous wives. Edyth becomes suspicious
and alerts the police. She escapes and the police arrive to
arrest Ronald.
Story 2: Full Circle by SueGrafton
Kinsey Millhone, a private detective, witnesses an
accident on the freeway that turns out to be a murder. She
investigates and discovers the identity of the murderer. But
in his attemptto escape, the killer crashes his car and dies
in exactly the same spot where he committed the murder.
Story 3: How’s Your Mother? by Simon Brett
Humphrey Partridge pretends that he is living withhis
elderly mother so that people will leave him alone. The
police believe he has murdered his mother for her money,
and they arrest him, but when they cannot find a body,
he is released.Hearing that he has won a lot of money, his
mother appears and he really does kill her. He confesses
his crime to the police, but this time they do not believe
him.
Story 4: At the Old SwimmingHole by
Sara Paretsky
Victoria (V. I.) Warshawski, a private detective, witnesses
a murder during a swimming competition. She realizes
that the intended victim was Alicia, an old friend of hers.Victoria investigates and discovers that Alicia’s brother,
Tom, was behind the attempt to kill her. She finds Alicia
and Tom at the swimming pool in their old high school,
but she arrives toolate to save Alicia’s life.
Story 5: Slowly, Slowly in the Wind by
Patricia Highsmith
Edward (Skip) Skipperton, a management consultant, has
been forced by ill health to retire to the country.He tries,
unsuccessfully, to persuade his neighbor, Peter Frosby, to
sell him the fishing rights on the land next to his property.
When Frosby’s son, also called Peter, elopes with Skip’s...