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Oct 25: A Murder Is Announced (1950) by Agatha Christie
By Susan · 16 posts · 17 views
By Susan · 16 posts · 17 views
last updated Oct 16, 2025 07:31AM
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Always an enjoyable read.
There is no real indication why this was Miss Marple's last case. She doesn't die or anything. At one point, she looks pale and one of the charaters, Gwenda or Giles - who do much of the legwork on the detecting part of the program, asks if she's all right and she indicates that she is ok ... but maybe she isn't and just doesn't want to share her illness with us. She didn't really need to go to the shore but she finagled her doctor into ordering it.
This was actually one ...more
There is no real indication why this was Miss Marple's last case. She doesn't die or anything. At one point, she looks pale and one of the charaters, Gwenda or Giles - who do much of the legwork on the detecting part of the program, asks if she's all right and she indicates that she is ok ... but maybe she isn't and just doesn't want to share her illness with us. She didn't really need to go to the shore but she finagled her doctor into ordering it.
This was actually one ...more
When Gwenda and her husband move into their new home, she has frightening memories of seeing a woman strangled in their home - yet she has no memory of ever having been there before. Miss Marple helps them unravels these mysterious memories.
As a youth, I thought Agatha Christie dry! I was really missing the essence. She is the soul of wit, understatement, quiet and hidden brilliance. Revisiting her is a blast. This was especially good as an audiobook with a cast.
I very much enjoyed this book. I understand it was published in 1976, but written during WW2. Most of the book was simply trying to prove whether a murder actually occurred!
Sep 26, 2017
Laura
rated it
liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery-series,
british-golden-age-mysteries
I started to read this and got about five pages into it when I realized I had already read it, or listened to the audiobook or something.
Another great Miss Marple mystery book.
My favorite Miss Marple to date!
Sure, I've always contended that i like Poirot better, but this was Miss Marple in fine form. This was the book I was looking for! Miss Marple truly taking the case not being relegated to the sidelines and being whined about by everyone else in the novel. Yes, there is knitting and gardening, But here our intrepid heroine gets respect ... and her man.
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Sure, I've always contended that i like Poirot better, but this was Miss Marple in fine form. This was the book I was looking for! Miss Marple truly taking the case not being relegated to the sidelines and being whined about by everyone else in the novel. Yes, there is knitting and gardening, But here our intrepid heroine gets respect ... and her man.
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Loved the BBC Radio dramatization of it!
May 16, 2011
Abbey
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
series,
myst-cosies,
myst-set-andor-auth-uk,
to-re-read,
vintage,
own,
sell,
myst-fems-project
Aug 11, 2015
Bhavya Mathur
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery-thriller,
kindle
Feb 12, 2017
Helen (read247_instyle_inca)
marked it as to-read
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review of another edition
Shelves:
golden-age-of-mystery,
spinster-reads
Apr 01, 2017
Diane
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mysteries-gr-britain
May 14, 2017
Jan C
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2017,
rtd-2017-missmarple-challenge
