Miss Marple

the complete short stories

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Miss Marple

the complete short stories

  • 4.6 (7 ratings) ·
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Presented for the first time in one volume are all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, that delightful spinster whose innocent blue eyes belie her shrewd insights. Here, in her pretty Victorian home, her knitting needles clicking softly in the background, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth solves twenty crimes in her mild, quiet manner, basing her solutions on past experiences and an insistence that human nature is the same everywhere.

It was, of course, the small village of St. Mary Mead that served as Miss Marple's training ground in the finer points of criminal behavior, and this, according to the former commissioner of Scotland Yard, Sir Henry Clithering, was clearly a matter of "natural genius cultivated in a suitable soil." While others are mulling over seemingly unfathomable situations, Miss Marple uses her principles to sort out facts and "go straight to the truth like a homing pigeon."

These stories are masterpieces of detection and each one has just the added ingenious twist that only Agatha Christie can give.

Publish Date
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Language
English
Pages
436

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Cover of: Miss Marple
Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories
1997, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Miss Marple
Miss Marple: the complete short stories
1987, G.K. Hall
in English
Cover of: Miss Marple
Miss Marple: the complete short stories
1986-11, Berkley Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Miss Marple
Miss Marple: the complete short stories
1985, Dodd, Mead
- [Book Club ed.].
Cover of: Miss Marple
Miss Marple: the complete short stories
1985, Dodd, Mead & Company
in English
Cover of: Miss Marple
Miss Marple: the complete short stories
1985, Dodd, Mead & Company
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Boston, Mass
Series
G.K. Hall large print book series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6005.H66 A6 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
436 p. ;
Number of pages
436

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2728922M
Internet Archive
missmarplecomple0000chri
ISBN 10
0816141282
LCCN
86022897
Library Thing
42862
Goodreads
806707
2952913

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