The murder at the vicarage : a Miss Marple mystery

SUMMARY: The classic mystery that introduced Miss Jane Marple Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of the murder of a local man not liked in the least. The victim's death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are... ***Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie.*** Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. **The local inspector and Miss Marple sort through to the truth.** ***The murder of Colonel Protheroe shocks the town of St. Mary Mead, where the main entertainment is tea and gossip.*** Among the neighbors of St. Mary Mead, the most meddlesome, observant and shrewd person is Miss Marple. His intervention will be decisive in the resolution of a crime for which there are no suspects. ***Death in the vicarage, published in 1930, was the first appearance of one of the most important characters in the work of Agatha Christie, the spinster and insightful Miss Marple, whose cases have been adapted several times both to the cinema and in Form of television series.***

The classic mystery that introduced Miss Jane Marple

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of the murder of a local man not liked in the least. The victim's death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are...

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When Colonel Protheroe is found dead from a single gun shot wound to the head, none of his neighbors in the village of St. Mary Mead is much surprised. Many people wished this local official would say farewell, if not quite so permanently. While suspects abound and the local police syymied, it is up to Miss Jane Marple to root out the killer "St. Mary Mead, a peaceful village where nothing ever happens, livens up considerably when the unpopular magistrate Colonel Protheroe is found dead, and Miss Marple discovers that a number of people wanted him dead."--Publisher The murder of Colonel Protheroe, a much-hated magistrate, brings Miss Marple to St. Mary Mead to wade through the scandal and dirty secrets exposed by the crime. Reissue. It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage. E-book extras: The Marples ; Essay by Charles Osborne.