pickMurder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple 1), by Agatha Christie (1930)
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Premise: A small English town is sent into a tizzy when an unpopular local official is found dead in the vicar‘s study.
Review: This was great. Miss Marple is a wonderful and unique protagonist and I love the way she tends to be a solve the mystery while on the sidelines from the main action. This also acts as an effective small town satire. I really enjoyed this.
so-soI snuck this Miss Marple short story into my December reading for the Snowflake prompt (set during winter/in snow) in the #ChristmasCrimeChallenge. I do love Miss Marple and her keen observations of human nature, but as is usual for me with Christie‘s short stories, I found this all too short.
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A pretty good Christie story, but if you, like me, are trying to get to know Miss Marple, this is not the best book for that. I think she was maybe on 10 pages all near the end?
So a good, fun mystery but definitely not what I was expecting main-character-wise.
pickThe Body in the Library (Miss Marple 2), by Agatha Christie (1942)
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Premise: An English town is thrown into a tizzy when a young woman‘s body is found in the library of a prominent family‘s estate
Review: Sometimes you just need a ‘Golden Era‘ detective novel, and this did not disappoint. It‘s well-written, and my brain was still piecing together the solution the day after I finished it. There‘s a reason why Christie is the master.
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While dining at some friends,Miss Marple is asked to recite a murder mystery involving Christmas.What transpires is a tale of a time she knew just from a man‘s behavior that he was going to kill his wife.With her astute detecting, she managed to uncrack his alibi that was considered by the police as uncrackable.
“Unsolved mysteries.”
Raymond West blew out a cloud of smoke and repeated the words with a kind of deliberate self-conscious pleasure.
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