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The Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries Book 1) by Christie, Agatha is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries Book 1) about?
The first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction.* Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe, declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, would be doing the world at large a favor! It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours laterwhen the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergymans study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. James Saxon delivers a memorable and absolutely masterful performance of Christie's first Miss Marple mystery. When the wildly unpopular Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar's study, it seems that everyonehis unhappy wife, his daughter, a visiting artist, an embittered poacher, the vicarhas a motive in a mystery that confounds the authorities, consumes the village and can only be untangled by observations and deductions of our heroine: the elderly gossip-cum-sleuth Miss Marple. Saxon's artful and enthusiastic portrayal of a host of charactersmale and female, guilty and innocent, young and old
Who reads The Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries Book 1)?
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- Author
- Christie, Agatha
- Publisher
- William Morrow/HarperCollins
- Published
- 1950
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780007422494
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- True Crime, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (8,188 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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