The Body in the Library: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries Book 3)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (822 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FC10WU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 575 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Agatha Christie has made it awfully hard for the rest of us, because whenever we think of a clever twist—she’s already done it.” (Elizabeth Peters, New York Times bestselling author of the Amelia Peabody novels)“Genuine old-crusted Christie.” (Time magazine)“Professional detectives are no match for elderly spinsters… it is hard not to be impressed.” (Times Literary Supplement (London))“One of the most ingeniously contrived of all her murder stories.” (Birmingham Post)
Pretty Good, And More Marple Than the 1st Book Agatha Christie's "The Body in the Library" is the second book in her Miss Marple Mysteries. The mystery and writing are interesting and the book fixes many of the issues I had with the first book. Specifically, there's more Miss Marple here and the book actually reads like a mystery. In the first book, she was almost non-existent and the text read like a description of life in a small town. In this book, she's moved up to the ranks of the main characters (though she's still overshadowed by the other characters and the police) and the small town life has moved to the back burner. The biggest issue I have with t. "Two young women are dead and the police are baffled. Send for Miss Marple!" according to Whistlers Mom. During Agatha Christie's Edwardian childhood, there were no "play schools" and play dates." Poor children played in the streets with other kids and some wealthier ones had a large family of siblings. But Christie's brother and sister were much older and she spent most of her childhood with her nanny or with her grandmothers. She was fascinated by the conversations between her grandmothers and their elderly friends - women who had never had jobs, never voted, and whose opinions had never been vlaued on any issue. And yet, they were shrewd observers of human nature and frequently better judges of people than thei. Kindle Customer said Classic Agatha Christie books are the best. This was a classic book from Agatha Christie. I would recommend it to anybody who likes Mysteries and suspense. She really knew how to keep the reader interested.
No one knows the human heart—or the dark passions that can stop it—better than Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.The Body in the LibraryThe body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap to catch a ruthless killer.. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out