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    <body><![CDATA[What kind of crime/mystery fan hasn't read Agatha Christie? I confess that I've never picked up a book by the acknowledged Queen of Crime. The only possible reason must be their obvious availability. So obvious that one assumes they will always exist as part of the crime landscape, copies in every l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42183349">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best (and most typical of her best) of Christie's novels, all of which I have read over the years. I love the Miss Marple mysteries best, followed by the Tommy &amp; Tuppence series. Reading Christie is like eating comfort food...best saved for a cold winter day when you need something to tak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7614994">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel starts with an old friend of Miss Marple, Dolly Bantry, waking up one day only to be informed by the butler that there is a dead woman on the carpet of her library.  Since neither she nor her husband knows the girl, she is at first inclined to see the real live murder as a great lark.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42158817">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.<p>The Body in the Library<p>The body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.</p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My very first Agatha Christie novel, took a while I know. The book was charming, that seems about the best word.  The whole setting was entreached in an England long past, or perhaps never truly existed. So at times you maybe roll your eyes at some things (Oh my reputation is ruined!) or have to loo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48728837">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember many details about this story, except that it was entertaining enough to distract me from increasingly sharp labor pains during the very early hours of June 18, 1987!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A young, blond woman is found dead on the floor of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry&#8217;s library. Nobody seems to know who the woman is, let alone how she wound up murdered in the Bantry&#8217;s home. Jane Marple is called in and the chase is on.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't find the Miss Marple as compelling as the Poirot I had read. That being said - if you are a mystery fan how can you not like an Agatha Christie?]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A young, blond woman is found dead on the floor of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry&#8217;s library. Nobody seems to know who the woman is, let alone how she wound up murdered in the Bantry&#8217;s home. Jane Marple is called in and the chase is on.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Un cadavre dans la bibliothÃ¨que: voilÃ , de l'aveu mÃªme de la romanciÃ¨re, une situation trÃ¨s banale du roman policier.<br/><br/> Mais si les propriÃ©taires de la maison ignorent totalement de qui il s'agit ? <br/><br/>Si la victime est une jeune femme un tantinet vulgaire, danseuse de son mÃ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66541067">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.  It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks.  But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?  The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery! before tongues start to wag.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, Miss Marple is back on the case in this the second novel of the Miss Marple series. This time she is called by her friend Dolly Bantry, who lives in Gossington Hall, because Dolly's maid woke her up in the morning screaming that there was a body in the library. It turns out to be the bod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15236066">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Body in the Library tells the story of a mysterious body of a murdered young woman found in an old couple's library. It features the adorable Miss Marple, an old village lady whose understanding of human nature proved her much sharper than people expected her to be. Interestingly, though it is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10297820">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this 3 stars, but only in relation to other kickass Christie mysteries-- in relation to mysteries in general, I'd probably give it 4 stars.<br/><br/>I gave it a lower rating because of the implausibility of the crime. It's an ingenious solution as always, but mega-improbable. That said, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57195263">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't want to say too much, but just so you know.  Sometimes things don't belong where they are.  Other times, things belong exactly where they are.  And, sometimes there are those who are not who they say they are, even if they might appear to be exactly whom they say they are. And sometimes, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61301706">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my second Agatha Christie novel, the first being, &quot;And Then There Were None&quot; which I thoroughly enjoyed and thought was fantastic.  This book was very entertaining, I was left almost spellbound, wondering how it would all fit together, the only qualms I had about this book were the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28171466">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first Miss Marple book, and definitely won't be my last, what a wonderful character she is! So much more likeable than Poirot, and I love the way she parallels human behaviours in the murderers with the actions of persons in the small village where she lives. Everyone thinks she is just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42271026">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately, I watched most to all of the Miss Marple stories on tv, and so I knew what happened.  I'd would still recommend reading the stories even so, if you have done the same.  I don't think any of the television interpretations do justice to the stories.  Christie gives such life and color t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61937782">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After quite some time Went back to Agatha Christie. Still easily one of the finest atuthor of crime novels. Thinking Detectives seem to be a vanishing tribe. Most of the new crime novels are more action oriented.<br/><br/>Not one of her best books but still an interesting and light read.For those ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53117539">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am having a hard time reviewing the Agatha Christie mysteries. Because I have not been much of a mystery reader, I keep comparing them to my only other experience in the genre - the Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy Sayers. Based on that comparison, I find the Christie books lacking - the characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62213586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love mysteries! No real surprise since Jane Eyre is one of my all time favourite novels and it has mystery elements. Simply written, but I couldn't put it down. Even though I'm really busy in school, it was all that I could think about. I can't wait to read the rest of the Miss Marple series. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked her plotting, which still made perfect sense once the killer was revealed (even though I never would have guessed who the killer was). Also, the quality of the writing is high, so you're not distracted by that, as you might be reading a trashy modern mystery.]]></body>
    
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