The Murder at the Vicarage
(Miss Marple #1)
by Agatha Christie
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''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 favour!'' 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 later – when the colonel was found shot dead in the clergyman’s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.
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Women detectives, Fiction, Classic, Literature, Audiobook, Braile, DVD, Murder, Mystery, Humour, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Investigation, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Marple, jane (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, England, fiction, English literature, Powieść kryminalna angielska, Tłumaczenia polskie, Comics & graphic novels, crime & mysteryPlaces
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The Murder at the Vicarage: (Miss Marple #1)
May 1979, Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
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- 1st New Dell ed.
0440159466 9780440159469
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Edition Notes
Manufactured in the U.S.A.* / New Dell ed. #15946 / Previous Dell ed. # 5946 / *Reprinted by arrangement with Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. First published October 1930
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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.
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