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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive." - Sir Walter ScottOf Agatha Christie - "The champion deceiver of our time." - New York Times"A right clever one, this." - Jay Schutt
Miss Marple's 1st book!But beyond that, this is really just a fabulous example of Agatha Christie at her best.This was my first time reading (actually listening) The Murder at the Vicarage and I was blown away by how enjoyable it was. Especially considering I've read a ton of her books and pretty much knew what to expect out of her mysteries.I knew I didn't know who did it, but I swear I thought I knew who didn't do it!I was (as always) dead wrong.So the gist is that the town Vicar gets caught u...
Murder most proper. Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage was my first Miss Marple. Now that I've had her I can say with knowledge born of experience, she ain't half bad! The characters are dapper dandies and old teetotaler biddies. High manners and speech abound, aside from the occasional parlor maid, flatfoot, or old age pensioner. These sort of tea cozy mysteries are just a little too quaint, even for me...and I've read all of James Herriot.Murder at the Vicarage has some clever misdirecti...
Fiddledesticks! How could you not enjoy a book where the word fiddledesticks is used. I'm a fan of Agatha Christie. I read her a lot when I was much, much younger. But I don't remember most of the books I read. So every now and then I plan to pick up one of her books and indulge. And what a better place to start that the first in the Miss Marple series.Murder at the Vicarage tells the story of well, a murder in the vicarage. St Mary Mead is a sleep town where not much happens. However, the ladie...
The Murder At The Vicarage (Miss Marple #1), Agatha ChristieOriginal Publication Year 1930.Abstract: Debut of Miss Jane Marple, 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 Jane sort through to the truth.Characters: Miss Jane Marple, Inspector Slack, Lawrence Redding, Len Clement...
“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.” THIS! In the tale that started it all, Miss Marple doesn’t need to move away from her lovely sanctuary in St Mary Mead. Colonel Lucius Protheroe is a loathsome creature. No one likes him, no one wants to even look at him. Therefore, the suspects are plenty once he is found murdered in the study of the local Vicar. A young artist, a flighty daughter, a troubled priest, an isolated wife, a r
This Review ✍️ Blog 📖 Twitter 🐦 Instagram 📷 Support me ☕ “The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.” Agatha Christie is one of my favorite authors and her books are a comfort read for me when I want to distance myself away from my usual fantasy reads. Up to this point, I have been a bigger fan of Poirot and Miss Marple books were okay! This is my third book in the Miss Marple series that I read and is actually the book that in...
It was difficult to rate this book. I wanted to do more justice to Agatha Christie and her brilliant mind, but my conscience nags at me; it tells me that in honesty I was not drawn into the story as I normally do when I read her novels. So here I'm divided and trying to justice to her and me both. It was overall a good plot though not a novel one. The setting is a small village in England where life is slow and stagnant. In such a small village, it is not surprising that everybody knows everybod...