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The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple #2)
While genial gentle soft white-haired Jane, in black lace cap and mittens of the time, knits, her Tuesday week visitors present early experiences, recently solved usually by confession of participants, for consideration by their club: Sir Henry Clithering last Commissioner of Scotland Yard, nephew writer Raymond West, artist Joyce Lemprière, elderly clergyman Dr Pender, dr...more
Paperback, 315 pages
Published
2002
by Harper
(first published 1932)
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Dec 08, 2010
mark monday
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
choose-ur-adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure!
You are a book club and you specialize in mystery and murder. It is a grand old time. There is also a quasi-member of the club, an Angela Lansbury type, a dotty biddy from the old school. You try to include her but you also find yourself talking around her. It is hard not to be condescending: there is so little she knows of the modern world. Still, her archaic point of view is at times quaintly charming. At times you are shocked by her preposterous conclusions, but you...more
You are a book club and you specialize in mystery and murder. It is a grand old time. There is also a quasi-member of the club, an Angela Lansbury type, a dotty biddy from the old school. You try to include her but you also find yourself talking around her. It is hard not to be condescending: there is so little she knows of the modern world. Still, her archaic point of view is at times quaintly charming. At times you are shocked by her preposterous conclusions, but you...more
قرأتها قبل عام من الآن ،، لم تعجبني جداً لأنني قرأت رائعتها ( واختفى كل شيء )التي حازت على اعجاب الكثير من النقاد وقتها
هذه الروايه أظنها من التي تقرأها مره واحده ،، عباره عن ثلاثه عشر لغزاً يجتمع على حله كل ثلاثاء السيده العجوز ماربل و بعض الأصدقاء و تتفوق السيده ماربل على الجميع في وصولها
للحل الصحيح للغز آو الجريمه بالرغم من خلفيتها المثقفه البسيطه إلا أنها كما تردد دائماً تملك خبره حياه طويله و تأملاً يأهلها لتتفوق على الجميع
اجاثا دائما مبهره ولكن هنا لم تكن بالمستوى المعتاد
هذه الروايه أظنها من التي تقرأها مره واحده ،، عباره عن ثلاثه عشر لغزاً يجتمع على حله كل ثلاثاء السيده العجوز ماربل و بعض الأصدقاء و تتفوق السيده ماربل على الجميع في وصولها
للحل الصحيح للغز آو الجريمه بالرغم من خلفيتها المثقفه البسيطه إلا أنها كما تردد دائماً تملك خبره حياه طويله و تأملاً يأهلها لتتفوق على الجميع
اجاثا دائما مبهره ولكن هنا لم تكن بالمستوى المعتاد
Some of the enigmas were of easy resolution, but what I liked most was the narrative aspect of this book. A group of people, that gathers to spend a good evening, try to solve crimes. Every element of the group tells a story, in which was involved or have the knowledge of, being the only one who knows the end of it. The others have to discover the truth. It was a different but interesting way of using the little grey cells and put to practice what everyone knows about human's nature. I'm startin...more
I was never really into Agatha Christie before. One day, I got nothing to read, and asked my sister to lend me some of her novels. She was a hardcore fan of Agatha Christie, so she gave me this book.
When I started reading, I didn't expect really much from this book. But it did exceed my expectations, I got captivated. Enough said.
Jane Marple is a sweet old lady who lives in St. Petersburg village, and goes out rarely. All she does is doing her daily activities while listening to whatever happene...more
When I started reading, I didn't expect really much from this book. But it did exceed my expectations, I got captivated. Enough said.
Jane Marple is a sweet old lady who lives in St. Petersburg village, and goes out rarely. All she does is doing her daily activities while listening to whatever happene...more
Genre: Murder Mystery
Characters:
Miss Marple
Dolly Bantry
Sir Henry Clithering
Raymond West
The Thirteen Problems is one of the famous books of Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie’s famous character Miss Marple has the lead role in the book. As you can see in the title, the book is about 13 different mysteries. Miss Marple invites some friends to a Tuesday night party. One of visiters asks the other guests that if they want to play a game about unsolved mysteries. There are thirteen chapter and in each...more
Characters:
Miss Marple
Dolly Bantry
Sir Henry Clithering
Raymond West
The Thirteen Problems is one of the famous books of Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie’s famous character Miss Marple has the lead role in the book. As you can see in the title, the book is about 13 different mysteries. Miss Marple invites some friends to a Tuesday night party. One of visiters asks the other guests that if they want to play a game about unsolved mysteries. There are thirteen chapter and in each...more
Sep 15, 2012
Parson
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Ms. Marple Addicts, Agatha Christie Fans, Mystery Short-Story Lovers
Shelves:
mystery
First and foremost, I'd like to immediately clarify the 3 star rating. If I had the option for 3.5 that would be far more accurate because the book received two separate scores:
The first score is 3 and this is based on reading it as a book, chapter by chapter, as I would normally in one or two days. This score receives a 3 because it does get very tiresome, repetitive, and predictable. The second score is 4 and this is based on reading the work on how I feel it should be read. I feel this book,...more
The first score is 3 and this is based on reading it as a book, chapter by chapter, as I would normally in one or two days. This score receives a 3 because it does get very tiresome, repetitive, and predictable. The second score is 4 and this is based on reading the work on how I feel it should be read. I feel this book,...more
I never fail to be entertained by a Miss Marple novel. In each story younger people in her company are strong in opinions and musings about a murder and remain baffled, while she, busy with needles and yarn, knits together current mysteries to recollections in her mind of past happenings of those with murderous intent in her small township of St Mary Mead.
Wha...more
"There is a great deal of wickedness in village life. I hope you dear young people will never realise how very wicked the world is." P. 87
Wha...more
This is not the edition of The Tuesday Club Murders I read but my edition is so old it doesn't seem to have an ISBN that I can find. This is my first foray into Christie's short stories. I don't read a lot of short story collections but my partner had listened to this on audio and liked it so I thought I would give it a try. The first thing to know is that Christie originally wrote six of these stories for a magazine and the other seven were written later to get enough stories to fill a book. It...more
Jul 16, 2011
Ariel
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery-agatha-christie
I picked this book up to join in on the Agatha Christie read along at Book Club girl. There is an Agatha Christie read along challenge that is being hosted by several bloggers this summer. I would never have picked up this book except for the challenge. It turns out Miss Marple is the perfect kind of cozy mystery that I adore. This book is an introduction to Miss Marple who is an elderly lady who everyone dismisses because of her age and because she has rarely left her English village. It turns...more
I'm probably a bit more than halfway through (re)reading Dame Agatha's canon. I admit that I've been disagreeably surprised by the number of adventure novels mixed in with the mysteries; she actually wrote a great many of the former, but there is a reason her reputation rests exclusively on the latter! After plodding through one too many of her "random adventurer in exotic locale with vague political intrigue" novels, I found myself starting to feel a bit soured on my Year of Agatha and decided...more
Miriam was looking for something to read the other night, and I ran across some Agatha Christie novels. She ended up not reading them (she wanted Murder on the Orient Express, so I bought her that, and she really liked it, but didn't feel a need to read other Christie novels), so since I had them piled up, I picked this up and read it.
Wow, I totally love the Miss Marple stories! This is a collection of very short mysteries, most of which are related after the fact as a puzzle for others, either...more
Wow, I totally love the Miss Marple stories! This is a collection of very short mysteries, most of which are related after the fact as a puzzle for others, either...more
Agatha Christie was the first mystery writer I read as a young girl (after Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy stories, of course). I always enjoyed her books and have bought some over the past few years.
Dame Agatha uses wonderful the language. I don't think I noticed it as much when I was a young reader.
This particular book was a series of short stories. I think short stories are often more difficult to write, as the author has less time and fewer words to make characters and situations impressionable.
The...more
Dame Agatha uses wonderful the language. I don't think I noticed it as much when I was a young reader.
This particular book was a series of short stories. I think short stories are often more difficult to write, as the author has less time and fewer words to make characters and situations impressionable.
The...more
Oct 20, 2010
Ana T.
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mysteries-thrillers,
read-in-2010
After having read this book I rather think I would love to have such a group of friends that could meet every week and solve mysteries. Unfortunately I don't think I would be as good as Miss Marple at it. Some of the characters I already knew from other Marple novels decide to create the Tuesday Night Club. Every Tuesday they meet, one of them related a crime they heard of or had a direct participation in and the others have to guess who the murderer was and its motivation.
It is great fun to se...more
It is great fun to se...more
I like Miss Marple, I really do.
She has sparkling blue eyes, a demure smile, a friendly disposition, an inquisitive mind. She has a simple country charm and a prolific knowledge of poisons. She makes us yearn for tea, good company, good conversation, cozy quilted chairs and warm fires.
However, when Miss Marple is taken in concentrated doses ..rapidly told ..back to back? Lets say, the tea becomes a bit sweet, the fire too warm and the conversation condescending. Yes, Miss Marple, the old biddy...more
She has sparkling blue eyes, a demure smile, a friendly disposition, an inquisitive mind. She has a simple country charm and a prolific knowledge of poisons. She makes us yearn for tea, good company, good conversation, cozy quilted chairs and warm fires.
However, when Miss Marple is taken in concentrated doses ..rapidly told ..back to back? Lets say, the tea becomes a bit sweet, the fire too warm and the conversation condescending. Yes, Miss Marple, the old biddy...more
I finished right at midnight last night. I had read this or had it on audio book prior since i recognized alot of the stories. Was fun to read again. several stood out in my mind. The four suspects. maybe I am dense, but which one actually did it? I got confused by Miss Marple lol. I like the Blue Geranium and remembered it had been a favorite prior. The first story I recalled best and knew exactly the outcome.(Which is probably how it is with first of books-most likely.)the Blood Stained Paveme...more
'MURDER MEETS HERE...
on howling winter nights in a great paneled mansion when the Tuesday Club plays for blood.
The rules are ghoulishly simple - each elegant member deals a sudden death card, and the others must match a killer's face to it.
The most ferocious winner is Miss Jane Marple, that sweet old tabbycat with dangerous claws, that silver-haired lady whose knitting needles rise and fall to the shivery cadence of a sentence of death...
A chilling collection of trials by terror, with the marvel...more
on howling winter nights in a great paneled mansion when the Tuesday Club plays for blood.
The rules are ghoulishly simple - each elegant member deals a sudden death card, and the others must match a killer's face to it.
The most ferocious winner is Miss Jane Marple, that sweet old tabbycat with dangerous claws, that silver-haired lady whose knitting needles rise and fall to the shivery cadence of a sentence of death...
A chilling collection of trials by terror, with the marvel...more
At our family cabin there is a small collection of Agatha Christie novels. Last time I went to the cabin I forgot to bring a book to read. So picked up this one just to pass the time. I only read two or three stories last time and this time I read atleast six. There are 13 short stories and the main character is Miss Marple, an observer of human behavior in the small town of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple has never been anywhere which has given her the unique opportunity to observe others in a fish...more
Every week, Miss Marple, her nephew and his girlfriend, and a few other people get together and tell stories of “some mystery of which they have personal knowledge, and to which, of course, they know the answer.” Everybody else is to guess the answer and then the storyteller of the week reveals the truth. Miss Marple, who everybody underestimates and indeed they assume she won’t even want to play, solves every single one through her intimate knowledge of human behavior. She makes parallels from...more
Este libro supone la primera aparición de Miss Marple en la obra de Agatha Christie. Y desde estas hojas, este personaje sagaz, a la par que entrañable, se ha convertido en uno de los grandes personajes del género. Debo hacer constar que siempre he sentido predilección por Poirot, pero poquito a poco, y novela tras novela, Miss Marple ha conseguido hacerse un hueco en este corazoncito que tengo, enamorado de las novelas de misterio.
Decía Agatha Christie tras publicar esta novela que el personaje...more
Decía Agatha Christie tras publicar esta novela que el personaje...more
This interesting little book contains a number of short stories all tied loosely together. The "detective" in this case is Miss Marple. The mysteries were fun to read and impossible to figure out, but I always find that to be the case in detective fiction. The idea behind the book is that a number of intelligent people form a kind of club where they get together every so often and relate a mystery which has occurred in the course of their lives.
Once the mystery is related, each of the other mem...more
Once the mystery is related, each of the other mem...more
Thoroughly enjoyed these Jane Marple shorts. By the time the third or fourth story gets told, the ending becomes predictable but no less entertaining. What I love most about this book is how Agatha Christie portrays Jane Marple as an observer of human behaviour which makes it possible for her to deduce the solutions to these mysteries. She was not made to be this brilliant world savy detective with vast knowledge of crime and police work, she's just someone who is observant and level headed with...more
I enjoyed The Tuesday Club Murders. While short stories are not my favorite, I prefer novels to short stories, I still enjoyed Miss Marple. This one may best be enjoyed one story at a time. There really isn't a need to rush through these stories all at once. There are thirteen stories in all: The Tuesday Night Club, The Idol House of Astarte, Ingots of Gold, The Blood-Stained Pavement, Motive v. Opportunity, The Thumb Mark of St. Peter, The Blue Geranium, The Companion, The Four Suspects, A Chri...more
Skvelá kniha aj pre nevášnivých čitateľov alebo ľudí, ktorí majú málo času, každý príbeh má menej ako 20 strán, takže nikomu nezaberie viac ako polhodinku. Ale fanúšikovia detektívky nebudú ochudobnení a spolu s postavami sa môžu snažiť vyriešiť záhadu. Z detektívov z pera Agathy Christie mám najradšej slečnu Marplovú a tu je presne vidieť prečo. Ostatní ju zo začiatku vôbec neberú do úvahy, ani ich nenapadne, že by mohla hrať s nimi, veď čo už len stará žena z dediny môže vedieť, ale vždy ich s...more
Okay so with this one I made a huge mistake. Not because I didn't like it which I did like it. I however forgot that there are different books that Agatha Christie has done but titles are different. When I started to read it, it was a quick read at first and took me 3 minutes to realize that this looks familiar. I had already bought the complete jane marple short stories. Low and behold went and grabbed that book and there it was the duplicate copy with a different name.
I do like short story bo...more
I do like short story bo...more
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Este livro é constituído por treze contos, mistérios contados por diferentes participantes num convívio dinamizado pela sempre perspicaz, sempre atenta, Miss Marple. Ninguém melhor do que ela para analisar diferentes estórias e, com o seu conhecimento sobre a natureza humana, desvendar o que jaz por trás dos mistérios aparentemente insolúveis.
Todos os contos encontram-se bem desenvolvidos, intrigantes e sempre com reviravoltas que me deixa...more
Este livro é constituído por treze contos, mistérios contados por diferentes participantes num convívio dinamizado pela sempre perspicaz, sempre atenta, Miss Marple. Ninguém melhor do que ela para analisar diferentes estórias e, com o seu conhecimento sobre a natureza humana, desvendar o que jaz por trás dos mistérios aparentemente insolúveis.
Todos os contos encontram-se bem desenvolvidos, intrigantes e sempre com reviravoltas que me deixa...more
1928 - all things considered, these have held up surprisingly well. Actually, 1928 was a pretty good year - Sigrid Undset won the Nobel for Lit, and I absolutely loved "Kristen Lavransdatter"; Edgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; D.H. Lawrence published Lady Chatterly's Lover; other works from that year range from The House at Pooh Corner to Woolf's Orlando. A good year for genre fiction of several sorts. The collection of short stories in this volume feature Miss Marple. T...more
I love Agatha Christie. Seriously. My sister had an Agatha Christie book when I was like, nine years old, and I stole it from her because she was taking FOREVER to read it, and ever since then, I LOVE Agatha Christie, and I don't read her often enough. The problem is I get so distracted trying to work it out so I can tell people how smart I am that I could work it out, that I have to read them twice just to satisfy my own curiousity (and occasionally, to make sense of the thing) so it's a good t...more
قرات الكتاب باللغة العربية، خفيف يدعوك للتابعة والاستمرار في القراءة دون ملل،مجموعة منكونة من 6 اشخاص ،يجتمعون في بيت الانسة ماربل،ثم يترح كل منهم جريمة او لغز حيره، وينتظر الحلول من الاخرينـ،والعجيب في الامر ان الانسة ماربل التي لم تغادر قريتها هي التي تحل جل الالغاز،وذلك باسقاط الاحداث على مواقف مشابهة تحدث في قريتها الصغيرة.
ادعو الجميع لللاستمتاع بقراءة هذا الكتاب
ادعو الجميع لللاستمتاع بقراءة هذا الكتاب
Christie at the top of her game. Each of these short stories could, I'm sure, have been expanded into a full novel; presenting them in brief, Christie strips them down to the bare essentials - the characters, the facts, the events. In all of Christie's mysteries she challenges the reader to recognize the clues in plain sight; with these stories she adds a taunt to the normal game, since - without the pages of what is, after all, filler that pads the pages of most mystery novels - there's nowhere...more
I love Agatha Christie's books this one brings together four different detectives - she has each one analyse the problem in their own way - good read
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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880...more
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880...more
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