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Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) is a novel in which Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a seemingly insignificant old woman. The story takes place in the English village of Broadhinny, where Mrs. McGinty, a cleaning lady, is found dead, murdered with a
Miss Lemon persuades Poirot to investigate a series of seemingly minor thefts in the university hostel, but simple kleptomania soon turns into a case of mysterious murder.
The tea ceremony, arranging flowers, arranging gardens and the art of creating beautiful porcelain stand in the background of this novel as symbols of the eternal and timeless in human creativity.
Uncle Goriot is the story of the old war profiteer Goriot and his daughters, who, after robbing him to the skin, leave him to die in the solitude and misery of the Vaquer boarding house, a story that can be read today on several levels.
The book "Inn" by Julian Stryjkowski, published in 1977, explores life in a small Jewish village in Galicia during the 19th century.