![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed Miss Marple won't get another outing for another 12 years. Up until now she has seemed to be in search of a satisfactory protagonist, although Hercule Poirot has made 5 appearances. This is Agatha Christie's first book with Miss Marple. Between them Miss Marple and the vicar make a formidable sleuthing team. She has always believed the method she has developed could be used in a 'real' case and here is her chance. Until this point Miss Jane Marple who lives right next door to the vicarage had only exercised her deductive skills on petty incidents. It was more than a decade since there had been a murder in the village, before the vicar's time. And what's more shot while he was sitting at a writing table in the vicar's study. Even the Vicar had been heard to wish him dead. Originally published in 1930, this edition is a Marple tie-in edition published by Harper Collins in 2005, to match up with the tele-movie starring Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, Derek Jacobi as Colonel Protheroe, and Stephen Tompkinson as the Vicar, Leonard Clement, married to Griselda.Ĭhurch warden Lucius Protheroe must have been the most unpopular man in St. ![]()
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