The Murder at the Vicarage (Marple, Book 1)
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The Murder at the Vicarage (Marple, Book 1)
By (Author) Agatha Christie
Book 1
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
2nd March 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
220g
Description
A quiet English village
A shocking murder
An unlikely detective
Nobody liked Colonel Protheroe.
So when hes found dead in the vicarage study, theres no absence of suspects in the seemingly peaceful village of St Mary Mead.
In fact, Jane Marple can think of at least seven.
As gossip abounds in the parlours and kitchens of the parish, everyone becomes an amateur detective.
The police dismiss her as a prying busybody, but only the ingenious Miss Marple can uncover the truth . . .
Never underestimate Miss Marple.
Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers.
Val McDermid
Always keeps her reader enthralled and guessing to the end.
Times Literary Supplement
Reviews
Without a doubt, the greatest mystery writer of all time Ragnar Jonasson
A hundred years after her first novel, and we are all still standing in her shadow Andrew Taylor
She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed Susan Lewis
Dame Agatha has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible David Baldacci
All crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt Peter James
Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction. Tana French
Author Bio
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
