One morning, Colonel and Dolly Bantry are awakened by their maid and informed that there is a body in the library! They immediately call the authorities and their dear old friend Miss Jane Marple. The dead young woman is soon identified as Ruby Keene, a dance hostess at a hotel. Can Miss Marple's sharp eyes find the motive, the truth, and the killer?
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This tale possesses depth, passion, sex, surprise, indescribable tragedy, greed, unforgettable characters and Miss Marple's blunt-talking pal, Dolly Bantry. …Riveting. -- USA Today
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Agatha Christie is the most popular mystery writer if all time. With over two billion books sold, her genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime . . In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote 79 novels and short story collections. She died on 12 January 1976.
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Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.
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Great!!!,
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Don't listen to those people who said this was boring...it wasgreat!!!! I never suspected the ending, even though I know thatChristie always has the most unlikely person as the murderer. Read it!
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This is one of Agatha Christie's finest stories.,
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This story has lots of characters and plot twists. Readers will find Miss Marple and her investigation of the crimes to be highly involving. A classic story that will be enjoyed by every Agatha Christie fan.
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A great mystery, one of the best ones ever written!,
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When the body of a murdered young woman is found in their library, the Bantry's bring in their old friend, Jane Marple. There's a mystery within a mystery here: who is the murdered girl, and how did she get from where she was last seen to the Bantry's library? There are suspects galore, but only one person can possible get to the truth - Miss Marple!
Jane Marple was the literary creation of that most famous of English mystery writers, Agatha Christie (1890-1976). For those of you unfamiliar with Miss Marple, she was your stereotypical elderly spinster-lady, who loves to gossip and grow her flowers. But, even more, she has a razor-sharp mind that she uses to solve mysteries, using her own brand of lateral thinking that allows her see clearer than anyone else around her. This is actually Agatha Christie's third Miss Marple novel, written in 1942. (The first one was The Murder at the Vicarage (1930), and the second one was Sleeping Murder, which was written in 1940 but locked away to be published after Ms. Christie's death in 1976.) Overall, I found this to be a fascinating read. If you love a good mystery, then get this book - it is a great mystery, one of the best ones ever written. I give this book my highest recommendations!
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Miss Marple, Sir Henry, Superintendent Harper, Colonel Melchett, Ruby Keene, Colonel Bantry, Conway Jefferson, Basil Blake, Agatha Christie, Mark Gaskell, George Bartlett, Adelaide Jefferson, Josephine Turner, Constable Palk, Miss Turner, Price Ridley, Pamela Reeves, Dinah Lee, Gossington Hall, Mary Mead, Miss Hartnell, Raymond Starr, Florence Small, Girl Guide, Majestic Hotel New!
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Miss Marple, Sir Henry, Superintendent Harper, Colonel Melchett, Ruby Keene, Colonel Bantry, Conway Jefferson, Basil Blake, Agatha Christie, Mark Gaskell, George Bartlett, Adelaide Jefferson, Josephine Turner, Constable Palk, Miss Turner, Price Ridley, Pamela Reeves, Dinah Lee, Gossington Hall, Mary Mead, Miss Hartnell, Raymond Starr, Florence Small, Girl Guide, Majestic Hotel New!
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- Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie on 10 pages
- Murder With Mirrors (The Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) by Agatha Christie in Front Matter
- Hickory Dickory Dock: A Hercule Poirot Novel by Agatha Christie in Front Matter
- Murder in Retrospect by Agatha Christie in Front Matter
- Elephants Can Remember (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie in Front Matter
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- Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie by Bruce Pendergast on 7 pages
- Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion by Vanessa Wagstaff on 6 pages
- Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars by Alison Light on 5 pages
- The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery by Robert J. Ray on 5 pages
- The World of Agatha Christie: The Facts and Fiction Behind the World's Greatest Crime Writer by Martin Fido on page 38, page 76, and page 115
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