THE CASE OF THE LONELY LADY
The novel about a case of Nancy and the author of the book
is John Milne that was published in 2003 by Dian Rakyat. This book has 61 pages
and the title is The Case of The Lonely Lady. This novel is good and the
language is easy to understand with some illustrated in the novel make the
reader more and more interested and can imagine the situation but the novel
actually doesn’t tell clearly about the some accident. In this novel there are
some characters. First, Nancy is the lonely woman that hasn’t many friends. Second,
Mr. Jone liked to lie and carry away someone’s treasure. Third is Isobel that
has good skill in acting. Fourth, Terry is ambitious and he is very kind and let
see the summary in the below.
There is a lady that very lonely, she was born in 1943 and she
hadn’t sister or brother. She was school in India and when she was graduated,
she felt very lonely.
In 1970 Nancy and her parents moved to Cheltenham England. Then,
her mother died several days later her father also died. When she was forty-six
and she hadn’t work, fortunately her parents had left money. Then she decided
to get holiday to East-Bourne. There, Nancy stayed at the small hotel. Then she
has friend, Isobel. Isobel is forty-six years old it’s same with Nancy. They became
a close friend and one day Isobel’s brother came to the East Bourne and Nancy
met with him, his name is Mr. Hendry Jone. He was widower, Mr. Jone and Nancy
became closer and closer at the some moments they often tandem. Nancy told
about her stories to Mr. Jone and he asked to Nancy to marry with him. Before they
were getting married, Mr. Jone went to Hasting because he had some business. A week
later Nancy and Isobel went to Hasting. There, Nancy and Mr. Jone were marrying
quietly because they wanted it nobody knew about their engaged. Then they went
to Mr. Jone’s house at the 12 Oakwood Avenue and when they arrived, Mr. Jone
made a drink to Nancy that actually could made Nancy felt so sleepy. When Nancy
woke up she was in the room where the windows and the door were closed and looked.
Then she couldn’t out from the room. Nancy realized that there was something
wrong with her husband and Isobel. Mr. Jone would to sell his house and Nancy
heard Mr. Jone and somebody were talking about the house. Then Nancy shouted “help!
help! help!” loudly but nobody heard. Mr. Jone locked Nancy in the room because
he wanted to carry away her treasure that was actually left by her parents.
Then the people who were talking with Mr. Jone went back to
her home. She is Sheila; she helped people who wanted to buy or sold their
house. When she arrived at her home, she told to her partner about her
experienced at the 12 Oakwood that heard somebody asked help. He is Terry and
he had job in building society. He has ambition to be a private investigator. When
Sheila told about someone who shouted help at the 12 Oakwood, he was very
interested to investigate it. Then Terry began his investigation and he found
many thing the arouse suspicion. He used many ways to get the facts. The milkman
and the paper boy that usually passed the home also helped Terry to open the
fact. Then Terry successful to opened the case and he could made Nancy out from
the room save Nancy. Terry also could send Mr. Jone and Isobel that actually
they were a couple to the jail.
