AMERICAN CRIME STORIES by Carlos

AMERICAN CRIME STORIES

People kill for different reasons fear, desire of power, madness, etc. This book has seven stories about crimes. I choose one of them to talk about it.

THE LIPSTICK

This story was told by Mary Roberts Riheheart. She was an American writer often called the American Agatha Christie.

Elionor Hammond’s wife has died. Mrs Hammond visited her psychiatrist doctor, Mr Barclay. He was in his late thirties and quite good looking. She was in the waiting room, and the last person who saw alive her was the nurse. Minutes after Mrs Hammond fell or jumped from the tenth floor window of Doctor Barclay waiting room. At least the inquiry told that.

But Miss Baring, the cousin of Mr Hadmmond didn’t believe in it. She thought that Mrs Hadmmond had been killed.

She began to research. On the one hand she thought that the killer was Mr hadmmon’s mother but on the other hand she thought that the killer was the nurse of the doctor.

The lost nearly her life for her research, a bullet touched her head. But when he woke up the doctor told her the true. The killer was her cousin. Good!! She lost a cousin, but she won a doctor.

Jealous is one of the worst reasons to kill but a lot of people kill for that reason.

I recommend this book, especially to people who are studying English because they’ll learn a lot of new vocabulary.