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My favourite Miss Marple. Whilst reading as a cozy, chatty memoir, Christie builds in an unsettling feeling of normality skewed, where distrust becomes the norm and neighbour suspects neighbour. The emotions surrounding a poison pen outbreak are deftly captured, with some interesting digressions into idleness and innovation, and the cause of Goneril and Regan's nastiness. Miss Marple hardly appears, but this does not matter in a book where Megan, Joanna and Jerry himself shine in the firmament.
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This story was serialized in US and UK magazines in 1942. It was published in book format in the US in 1942, followed by the UK in 1943.
I read my old paperback copy from 1984 (Berkley Mystery) and listened to an audio book (HarperAudio, 2012, Narrated by Joan Hickson (yay!!), 5 hours 45 minutes long). More on the audio book later in the review....
I collected many of Agatha Christie's novels and short story collections over the years. They've been on various bookshelves and moved with me from p ...more
I read my old paperback copy from 1984 (Berkley Mystery) and listened to an audio book (HarperAudio, 2012, Narrated by Joan Hickson (yay!!), 5 hours 45 minutes long). More on the audio book later in the review....
I collected many of Agatha Christie's novels and short story collections over the years. They've been on various bookshelves and moved with me from p ...more
So I'm 70% through this book, and Miss Marple turns up, does very little, and gets part credit for solving the mystery? Still this was a fun book, even if Miss Marple felt tacked on for posterities sake.
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Agatha Christie always tells a wonderful tale! Her characters come to life once more in this small town, poisoned pen story. Miss Jane Marple again uses her knowledge of human nature to bring a killer to justice.
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