From the Bookshelf of Reading the Detectives…

The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)

Agatha Christie

Start date: February 1, 2025

Finish date: February 28, 2025

Discussion: Group Challenges

Why we're reading this: The first Miss Marple novel
[close] The first Miss Marple novel

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of 168 topics — 7,797 comments total

Group Challenges

* Sept 25: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) by Agatha Christie
By Susan · 16 posts · 18 views

last updated Sep 12, 2025 08:12PM

* Sept 25: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928) - SPOILER Thread
By Susan · 13 posts · 22 views

last updated Sep 16, 2025 12:58PM

showing 7 of 7 topics view all »

What Members Thought

Jun 16, 2017 Anissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: british-fiction-uk-ireland, series, cozy-mystery, 2017

I have long been a Christie fan and Miss Jane Marple fan but recently realized that I had never read the one that began it all. A terrible error that needed to be corrected and now I have. I particularly liked that it wasn't told from Jane's POV so the reader is introduced to her through the lens of the narrator & others when not in her presence. I very much enjoyed it and definitely recommend it. ...more

11 likes · Like · see review

Feb 15, 2019 Jazzy Lemon rated it it was amazing

Shelves: british-authors, classics

In which we first meet the legendary Miss Marple.

5 likes · Like · see review

Jan 04, 2017 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: miss-marple

The idyllic village of St Mary Mead is the setting for this classic murder mystery. Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the vicar's study much to the incumbent's distress and embarrassment. Fortunately the vicar's next door neighbour is Miss Marple, that ever inquisitive spinster who sees everything and understands human nature better than most.

There are plenty of suspects in this well constructed story. Half the village, including the vicar, has at one time or another wished the victim out ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Mar 04, 2018 Pranit rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, miss-marple

My first Miss Marple story. I was pushing this series since a very long time. It just amazes me how one person can write so many novels & short stories yet make it difficult to figure the real murderer all the time! A wonderful characterisation by the Queen of crime. I’m going to read more of this series. Set in a very different place, Miss Marple isn’t your everyday detective. She uses her personal touch & old age to the best of her advantage to solve the crime.

Like · see review