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    <body><![CDATA[Quand on découvre le colonel Protheroe tué d'une balle dans la tête dans le bureau du presbytère, le pasteur a déjà sans doute une idée sur l'identité de l'assassin ou, en tour cas, sur un mobile vraissemblable. <br/><br/>N'assiste-t-il pas au thé hebdomadaire de sa femme, où s'échangen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66545234">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[With the author being a female and having written this book in the 1930s, I was a little unsure what to expect.  I like that the book was clean - meaning little violence, sex, or foul language.  But it was just not that interesting, like a good murder mystery should be.  Perhaps I'm missing somethin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75261201">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this a lot. I like the way it's told from the point of view of the vicar who finds a dead colonel in his office. I like the vicar's relationship with his parishioners and his gentle but humourously realistic perceptions of the people in the village. I also like the vicar's relationship with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46015746">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been stuck in a bit of a reading rut lately, and I thought that a good mystery would be way to break out of it. <em>Murder at the Vicarage</em> did not disappoint. I'll acknowledge that I'm not much of a mystery reader (frankly, the only other mysteries I've read are Dorothy Sayer's Peter Wimsey novels ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49374090">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was looking forward to reading the first Miss Marple mystery, and I must admit I was disappointed.  Miss Marple is a minor character in this story.  It seems that, when Agatha Christie wrote this tale, she wasn't planning on creating a series featuring Miss Marple.  So I'm looking forward to the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61539763">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Superb book, great fun. This is the debut Jane Marple novel, told from the point of view of the village vicar who's always the last to know everything. It makes for a great narrative device as the murder mystery and various more minor village mysteries unfold. Entertaining characters and dialogue, q...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56887140">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like mystery books.  I have read only 2-3 Agatha Christie books, so, thought I should read more. I chose this one since it was the first book to introduce Miss Marple.  As with all of Christie books, there are twists in the evidence, and it takes a cunning mind to sort out all of the clues,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69585290">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Miss Marple mysteries.  They are so totally of thr observed and thought of and deduced rather than of blood and gore and hallucinatory effects.  She is so careful in her reasoning and in this, her debut, she is merely watchfull and helpful, not yet risen to heights of glory.  So satisfactory,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81643122">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Miss Marple, with many characters we get to know later (Colonel Melchett, Inspector Slack) in raw form. I found the solution complicated - lots of tricks and twists to make it work, but the thing that annoyed me most is that the murderer was someone I wanted to be innocent...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good mystery... not the best Miss Marple style because it did not have the usual &quot;this reminds me of so and so&quot; that Miss Marple uses to figure stuff out (there's a bit but not much) but it's a well plotted story and for the second time I figured out the murder.... ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Christie standout.  The first Jane Marple mystery.  Not elaborately plotted and, as usual, Christie makes it seem effortless.  A true Golden Age cozy mystery.  This is probably my fifth reading of this particular Christie novel; I just can't get enough of them!]]></body>
    
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