It's a historic event in detective fiction as the unflappable sleuth's passion for gossip - and cheerful recognition of the worst side of human nature - leads her to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, St. Mary Mead's most loathed magistrate, has been found shot through the head. But it isn't the "pompous old brute's" murder that raises eyebrows, but rather the scandalous secrets it exposes. Those secrets are about to put St. Mary Mead on the map - and send Miss Marple on the trail of a killer with ...
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It's a historic event in detective fiction as the unflappable sleuth's passion for gossip - and cheerful recognition of the worst side of human nature - leads her to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, St. Mary Mead's most loathed magistrate, has been found shot through the head. But it isn't the "pompous old brute's" murder that raises eyebrows, but rather the scandalous secrets it exposes. Those secrets are about to put St. Mary Mead on the map - and send Miss Marple on the trail of a killer with something to hide. "Any book by Agatha Christie attracts attention but when she really hits her stride, as she does in Murder at the Vicarage, she is hard to surpass." Saturday Review of Literature
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Add this copy of The Murder at the Vicarage to cart. $90.84, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Macmillan US Audio.
I LOVE THESE OLD BOOKS! I LOOK FOR THE OLDEST PUBLISHED DATE AND ORDER THEM. I LOVE THE THOUGHT OF READING A BOOK PUBLISHED 50 YEARS AGO AND THE THOUGHT OF HOW MANY PEOPLE HELD AND READ THIS SAME BOOK!!! WAS JUST WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR!! CHARACTER!!
bid0na
Apr 3, 2007
This is the first book with Miss Marple and undoubtedly one of the best. I enjoyed this book My rating 5of5
