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A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

Agatha Christie

Start date: October 1, 2025

Finish date: October 31, 2025

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Apr 02, 2016 BrokenTune rated it it was amazing

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"A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m. Friends accept this, the only intimation."

Little Paddocks is set in a typical village in the English countryside, where people enjoy the quiet life, away from the hustle and bustle of bigger towns, and where everyone knows everything that is going on in the lives of their neighbours. Or do they?

“In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.”

I have read A Murde ...more

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May 04, 2017 Leslie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, mysteries

Emilia Fox did an excellent narration despite the fact that her voice for Miss Marple was a tad too firm for my image of the character.

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Apr 28, 2017 Sawako rated it it was amazing

Shelves: agatha-christie, mystery, open-library, miss-marple-2017-challenge, books-read-in-2017

Group read with Reading the Detectives. I borrowed it from open library. ...more

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Apr 09, 2017 Andréa rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: tv-movies, digital, mystery-thriller-crime, audio, classics, british-isles, z-detectives

Emilia Fox does superb voices. ...more

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Nov 04, 2017 Sandy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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In a newspaper it is announced that a murder will happen at a specific time and place, and it does.

Fun story with good characters and lots of red herrings to send you off the trail from the real murderer.

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