Debussy; Ravel: (The) Welte-Mignon Mystery Vol.XII

Advantages: Good plot twists. Well written. Classic Who-Dunnit.
Disadvantages: Slight formulaic feel, too similar to other Christie books in parts.

...Agatha Christie, widely accepted as the Queen of Crime, was a prolific writer. Only outsold by Shakespeare and the Bible, she has sold over a billion books in English and a further billion in other languages. Her most famous creations are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, representations of whom can be seen regularly on our television screens. This book features Poirot, the dapper little Belgian detective with his superior powers of deduction and moustache-twirling tendencies. The plot of The Mystery of the Blue Train did feel slightly formulaic to my mind. A rich American beauty is married to an impoverished English cad, a man with expensive taste, trying to sustain his champagne lifestyle on his ?shandy? income, including financing a high-maintenance and demanding mistress. The American, after persuasion... Read review

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Advantages: good experience in field research work
Disadvantages: little pay for assignments.

...Who are TNS Mystery Shopping service? They are a large Market Research company called Taylor Nelson Sofres. Mystery shopping is an independent visit carried out by a contractor of the Mystery Shopping organisation. The Mystery Shopping company will have a contract from a client whether they be a business generally a well known group of companies. Their are either retail visits to Restaurants, Banks, Betting shops, coffee shops, amongst the type of visits that tend to be available. The reason this exercise is used is for the business to measure the level of quality performed on either a retail basis or through phone calls. The Buying Process of a retail Fast Food store will check for cleanliness i.e how fast are the tables cleared and cleaned, the speed of the buying process, from walking into the store to making a payment... Read review

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Advantages: Work when you like, fun
Disadvantages: Low Pay

...I have been a Mystery Shopper for 4-5 months now and I enjoy every aspect of it. Its great experience, especially if you want to work within retail or work in retail now as you can pick up a lot of things about customer service, etc. What is a Mystery Shopper? A company pays you to go into a shop and makes enquiries and possibly a purchase (like any normal customer) and you then have to report back, mostly by web form or sometimes by telephone on the quality of the customer service you received. This company then reports back to the retailer with their findings, etc and they look at this to see how they can improve their customer service and who is not giving good customer service. Companies sales can drop due to a lack of good customer service, this is why companies pay people to pretend to be a customer to ensure the staff are... Read review

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