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Miss Marple Omnibus
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v. 3: "Nemesis", "Sleeping Murder", "At Bertram's Hotel", "Murder at the Vicarage" (Miss Marple)
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Agatha Christie
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Free shipping NZ wide Ships within 24 hours from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 688 pages, New edition Edition | | Release Date: | 10 July 1997 |
A further four of Agatha Christie's twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series. Nemesis Miss Marple receives a letter from a friend who died only a week earlier - a letter urging her to investigate a crime. But he has failed to tell her the nature of the nature of the crime. The only clue he leaves is an almost unfathomable quotation...Sleeping Murder Since Gwenda moved into her home, odd things have started to happen. In fear, she turns to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts - and unravel a 'perfect' crime that has escaped detection for 18 years...At Bertram's Hotel A holiday in London draws Miss Marple to Bertram's Hotel, where she can indulge herself in all the comforts of a bygone era. But she senses that something sinister lurks beneath the well-polished veneer...The Murder at The Vicarage The Colonel's body is discovered in the Vicarage study. Yet only a few hours before, the vicar himself declared, 'Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.' Miss Marple finds it all most intriguing... Table of Contents"Nemesis"; "Sleeping Murder"; "At Bertram's Hotel"; "The Murder at the Vicarage". About the AuthorAgatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. Reviews'Full of freshness and charm ... Miss Marple is spry, shrewd and compassionate' Sunday Telegraph |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Ltd | | ISBN: | 0006499619 |
| EAN: | 9780006499619 | | Dimensions: | 19.0 x 13.0 centimeters (0.47 kg) |
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 – Customer review on 07/01/2007
As told in the point of view of the vicar himself, The Murder at the Vicarage is an interesting whodunnit whereupon the reader is kept in the dark and enlightened only to be misled again.
Unlike Christie's And Then There Were None, the clues aren't dealt out, so it would be nearly impossible for the reader to figure out what is going on. I myself suspected someone from nearly the very beginning, only to find that, had I been a police inspector, I would have quickly lost my job for nearly imprisoning an innocent character.
But then, this is true for nearly the entire police force here (and in other Marple books), for it always comes down to Jane Marple's discourse on her facts and her timeline that sets everyone down the correct path. And while in The Body in the Library (third in the series) Miss Marple waits for proof before opening her mouth, here she must speak up in order to... well, you will just have to see.
The book is fun, and the vicar's opinionated personality makes for a very intriguing read (what do these religious personalites really think about everyone?). What immediately stood out was how Christie is able to make nearly everyone (this is a dozen characters!) quite possibly the murderer! The finale is, of course, the best part, and I would think to myself, "Ah that explains it, but then what about..." to which I would find the answer. This occurs four or five times, and even then the reader will have two pages to go to wrap up little details that he or she may have quite forgotten about!
The book drags in some areas probably due to our modern requisite for instant gratification. And it was a joy to compare the book cover's painting to the goings-on in the tex
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– Customer review on 07/01/2007
This was the first Agatha Chrystie book I read. I bought it because of the cover. It remains for me as one of the more readable and easiest to reread mysteries by the author. My AC favorite is Destination: Unknown.
I never did take to other popular English murder mystery writers. I liked Agatha Chrystie because her books were about murder being unforgivable and that influenced me as it was from her books that my first thoughts on murder came. I quite dislike all the media products these days that "thrill" the consumers with murders and where "inventiveness" is used to describe ever more sadistic and frankly, mediocre expressions of nastiness
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